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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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The deadline arrives: Checking in on the Reactor Pilot Program
On May 23, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14301, “Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the DOE,” which instructed the Department of Energy to create a Reactor Pilot Program (RPP)—a new system in which companies could pursue DOE authorization to build and test their first-of-a-kind nuclear technologies. EO 14301 set an ambitious goal for that program: three reactors achieving criticality by July 4, 2026.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|3:15–5:00PM CDT|Michigan/Michigan State
Session Chair:
Simon Pimblott (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey (Oregon State)
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Preliminary Irradiation Thermo-Mechanical Analysis of LEU Fuel Plate for NBSR Conversion
3:15–3:35PM CDT
Firat Cetinbas (ANL), Walid Mohamed (ANL), Dhongik Yoon (ANL), Cihang Lu (Brookhaven), Peter Kohut (Brookhaven), Abdullah Weiss (NIST), Erik Wilson (ANL)
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Influence of Nb Addition and Microstructure on the Anisotropic Biaxial Creep Behavior of Advanced Zircaloys
3:35–3:55PM CDT
Mahmoud Y. Hawary (NCSU), K. Linga Murty (NCSU)
Dynamic System Sensitivity Analysis of Burnup Accelerated UO2 and Cr2O3 Doped UO2 Fission Gas Release
3:55–4:15PM CDT
Ian T. Ferguson (Oregon State), Pierre-Clément A. Simon (Idaho National Laboraory), Tianyi Chen (Oregon State)
Investigating the Mechanisms Driving High Burnup Structure Formation
4:15–4:35PM CDT
Sadie Wicks (Univ. Florida), Brandon Bohanon (Univ. Florida), Michenna Allen (TAMU), Benjamin Meija Diaz (TAMU), Zhihan Hu (TAMU), Lin Shao (TAMU), Michael R. Tonks (Univ. Florida), Assel Aitkaliyeva (Univ. Florida)
