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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 ETWDD
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|10:00–11:45AM CDT|Great America 1/2
Session Chair:
Lori Brady
Alternate Chair:
Sukesh K. Aghara
Session Organizer:
Kyle C. Hartig
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Regimes of Applicability for Nuclear Reactor Cost Estimation Methodologies
10:00–10:20AM CDT
Rohan Biwalkar (Pittsburgh Technical LLC), Sola Talabi (Pittsburgh Technical LLC), Ben Lindley (University of Wisconsin Madison)
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Development of the PRIME Methodology for Nuclear Reactor Cost Estimation
10:20–10:40AM CDT
Rohan Milind Biwalkar (Pittsburgh Technical LLC), Sola Talabi (Pittsburgh Technical LLC), Abdalla About-Jaoude (INL), Levi Larsen (INL)
Small Modular Reactors: Opportunities and Impacts for Indiana
10:40–11:00AM CDT
Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue Univ.), Ryan Gallagher (Purdue Univ.), Indraneel Kumar (Purdue Center), Kara A. Salazar (Purdue Univ.), Tamara Ogle (Purdue Univ.), Michael D. Wilcox (Purdue Univ.), Anne Lucietto (Purdue Univ.), Taek K. Kim (ANL), Becca Gillespie (Energy Systems Network), Paul Mitchell (Energy Systems Network), Burton Brooklyn (Ivy Tech Comm. College of Indiana), Seungjin Kim (Purdue Univ.)
Sustainable Energy Marketplace and Societal Readiness
11:00–11:20AM CDT
Hyungjin Kim (Penn State University), Saya Lee (Penn State University), Nonna Sorokina (Penn State University), Darshana Sunoj (Penn State University)
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