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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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MIT professor develops method to verify compliance with Outer Space Treaty
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Areg Danagoulian of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is proposing a mechanism for verifying that Earth-orbiting satellites are in compliance with the Outer Space Treaty, which prohibits the placement of nuclear weapons in space. Danagoulian’s “concept and feasibility study,” titled “Verification of the Outer Space Treaty with cosmic protons,” was published recently in the journal Nature.
Technical Session|Sponsored by FED
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|8:00–9:45AM PDT|Palm B
Session Chair:
Atul Kumar
Alternate Chair:
Lauren M. Garrison
Session Organizer:
Paul W. Humrickhouse
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Development, Validation and Application of a Mathematical Model for Inertial Fusion Energy Using OpenFOAM
8:00–8:20AM PDT
Eric Cervi (Politecnico di Milano), Antonio Cammi (Politecnico di Milano)
Paper
VERTEX Closures: Towards Data-Driven 3D MHD Turbulence Models for Fusion Blanket Simulations
8:20–8:40AM PDT
Arpan Sircar (ORNL), Katarzyna Borowiec (ORNL), Vittorio Badalassi (ORNL)
Helium Flow Simulations of Heat Transfer Enhancement Structures for Blanket First Wall Cooling
8:40–9:00AM PDT
Yuqiao Fan (ORNL), Cody S. Wiggins (ORNL)
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Development of OpenMC Reduced Ordered Models to Evaluate Solid Breeder Concepts
9:00–9:20AM PDT
Yogendra S. Panchal (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Marina Rizk (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Nicholas Brown (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), G. Ivan Maldonado (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
