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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 FED
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|8:00–9:45AM CDT|Los Angeles
Session Chair:
Pierre-Clement A. Simon
Alternate Chair:
Paul W. Humrickhouse
Session Organizer:
Thomas Fuerst
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Benchmark Interatomic Potentials for Fusion Materials Applications
8:00–8:20AM CDT
Mianzhen Mo (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Umang Agarwal (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Zhijiang Chen (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Mungo Frost (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Edna R. Toro (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Nicholas Hartley (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Fuhao Ji (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Benjamin Ofori-Okai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Silvia Pandolfi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Alexander Reid (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Eric Sung (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Peihao Sun (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Xiaozhe Shen (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Katie Wootten (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Ling Wang (SLAC Nat'l Accelerator Lab), Siegfried Glenzer (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Xijie Wang (University of Duisburg-Essen), Klaus Sokolowski-Tinten (University of Duisburg-Essen), Yongqiang Wang (LANL), Peter Hosemann (Univ. California, Berkeley), Weicheng Zhong (ORNL), Erki Metsanurk (Uppsala University), Artur Tamm (University of Tartu), Alfredo A. Correa (LLNL)
Paper
Decay-Activation Analysis of Reduced Activation Ferritic Martensitic Steel In Fusion Reactors
8:20–8:40AM CDT
Ishita Trivedi (INL), Nicolas E. Woolstenhulme (INL), Hanns Gietl (INL), Michael Moorehead (INL), Alexander L. Swearingen (INL), Katie Hawkins (INL), Tommy Holschuh (INL), Michael Reichenberger (INL), Kevin Tsai (INL)
Tritium Breeding Blanket Testing with an Intense DT Neutron Source
8:40–9:00AM CDT
Ross F. Radel (SHINE Technologies), Lucas Jacobson (SHINE Technologies), Mark Gilbert (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), Rob Bamber (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority)
Demonstration of Proton-Boron Fusion in a Helicon-Assisted Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Device
9:00–9:20AM CDT
Erik P. Ziehm (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Rohan Puri (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), George H. Miley (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
