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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
Standards Program
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August 2025
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Startup looks to commercialize inertial fusion energy
Another startup hoping to capitalize on progress the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has made in realizing inertial fusion energy has been launched. On August 27, San Francisco–based Inertia Enterprises, a private fusion power start-up, announced the formation of the company with the goal of commercializing fusion energy.
Technical Session|Sponsored by FCWMD
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|3:15–5:00PM CDT|Indiana/Iowa
Session Chair:
Andrew R. Griffith
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Jared A. Johnson
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Conceptual Design of a Thermal Accelerator Driven System for the Transmutation of Long-Lived Fission Products
3:15–3:35PM CDT
Alberto Talamo (ANL), Taek K. Kim (ANL), Mohamed Brahim (ANL), Won Sik Yang (Univ. Michigan)
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Composite Moderators in Micro-Pebble-Bed High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors
3:35–3:55PM CDT
Donald L. Doyle (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Jason Trelewicz (Stony Brook University), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Defense Waste Processing Facility Main Process Cell Crane Upgrade and Simulation
3:55–4:15PM CDT
Matt Borton (PAR Systems), Charles Kelly (Savannah River Mission Completion), Randall Wilkinson (Savannah River Mission Completion), John Olsen (GlobalSim)
Presented by Judd Lapp (PAR)
Neutronic Feasibility of Breakeven Molten Salt Fast Reactor Based on a Closed Fuel Cycle
4:15–4:35PM CDT
Eunhyug Lee (KAIST), Taesuk Oh (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
Determination of Molten Salt Reactor Off-gas Cleaning Rate Using Simulated Off-gas Analysis
4:35–4:55PM CDT
Alexander Macris (Univ. Texas, Austin), Kevin T. Clarno (Univ. Texas, Austin), Ondrej Chvala (Univ. Texas, Austin)
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