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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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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 Univ.), 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)
