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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Reflections on NOW
Hash Hasemianpresident@ans.org
Last month, I talked about my goal of strengthening ANS’s voice, in part by attending three conferences. I have now checked the first event off that list: the Nuclear Opportunities Workshop.
This year, NOW took another step in outgrowing its “workshop” moniker and transitioning to a full-fledged regional conference and expo. What started only a few years ago as a small gathering in Oak Ridge, Tenn., with roughly 50 attendees has skyrocketed to an event with 1,100 people in attendance in Knoxville.
NOW’s popularity reflected how busy the roughly 350 nuclear companies in Tennessee have been in recent years. There is significant work going on surrounding Gen IV reactor development and deployment, advancements in new nuclear fuels, and defense-related builds like the Uranium Processing Facility.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MCD
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|8:00–9:45AM PDT|Jasmine B
Session Chair:
Syed Bahauddin Alam
Alternate Chair:
Yifeng Che (INL)
Session Organizer:
Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
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Uncertainty Analysis on the Pump Flow Transient Phenomena in the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment
8:00–8:20AM PDT
Mohamed H. Elhareef (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Paper
The Effect of the State-of-Knowledge Correlation in PSA Depending on the Type of Uncertainty Distributions
8:20–8:40AM PDT
Gyun Seob Song (Chung-Ang Univ.), Man Cheol Kim (Chung-Ang Univ.)
Optimization and Analysis of LSTM-Based Surrogate Modeling of Metallic Nuclear Fuels
8:40–9:00AM PDT
James Daniell (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Kazuma Kobayashi (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Syed Bahauddin Alam (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Ayodeji Alajo (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology)
Predicting Heat Release Rates of Electrical Enclosures Using Machine Learning
9:00–9:20AM PDT
Elvan Sahin (Virginia Tech), Brian Y. Lattimer (Virginia Tech), Juliana P. Duarte (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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