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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Deep geologic repository progress—2025 Update
Editor's note: This article has was originally published in November 2023. It has been updated with new information as of June 2025.
Outside my office, there is a display case filled with rock samples from all over the world. It contains a disk of translucent, orange salt from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M.; a core of white-and-bronze gneiss from the site of the future deep geologic repository in Eurajoki, Finland; several angular chunks of fine-grained, gray claystone from the underground research laboratory at Bure, France; and a piece of coarse-grained granite from the underground research tunnel in Daejeon, South Korea.
Technical Session|Sponsored by ANSTD
Monday, June 16, 2025|1:00–2:45PM CDT|Chicago Ballroom C
Session Chair:
Dianne Ezell (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Robert O'Brien (USRA)
Session Organizer:
Jeffrey C. King
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CR-39 Nuclear Track Detector Responses and Aviation Route Dose Calculations
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Kah-Yeen Lim (Nat'l Tsing Hua Univ.), Zi-Yi Yang (INER), Rong-Jiun Sheu (Nat'l Tsing Hua Univ.)
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Criticality Assessment of a Lightweight HALEU & HEU-fueled NTP System
1:20–1:40PM CDT
Jonah Lau (Purdue Univ.), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue Univ.), Adrian Tymes (CubeCab)
Impact of Real Gas Properties on Multiphysics Modeling of a Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Fuel Element
1:40–2:00PM CDT
Corey D. Smith (AMA), Jacob Stonehill (AMA)
Experimental Study of an Interstellar Fusion Propulsion Architecture
2:00–2:20PM CDT
Gerald P. Jackson (Hbar Technologies), Grace E. Bittlingmaier (Beam Alpha Inc.)
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