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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 MSTD
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|8:00–9:45AM CDT|Michigan/Michigan State
Session Chair:
Benjamin Beeler (NCSU)
Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey (Oregon State)
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Calibration of DART Parameters for the Simulation of Fission Gas Bubble Behaviors in U-Mo Fuel
8:00–8:20AM CDT
Zhi-Gang Mei (ANL), Gyuchul Park (ANL), Bei Ye (ANL), ATM Jahid Hasan (NCSU), Benjamin W. Beeler (NCSU)
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AI-Driven Analysis of the Lithium Deuteride (LiD) Fission-Fusion Cycle
8:20–8:40AM CDT
Noah D'Amico (Texas Tech University), Sandeep Puri (Texas Tech University), Ian Jones (Texas Tech University), Andrew Gillespie (Texas Tech University), Cuikun Lin (Texas Tech University), Robert Duncan (Texas Tech University)
Insight into Irradiation Defect Production in Zirconium Using Machine-Learned Potentials
8:40–9:00AM CDT
Jose March-Rico (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Jonathan L. Wormald (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Volker Eyert (Materials Design, Inc.), David Reith (Materials Design, Inc.), Brendan M. Ensor (Naval Nuclear Laboratory - KAPL), Richard W. Smith (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
Comparative Analysis of Hopfield Neural Network Performance in Processing Pulsed Infrared Thermography Images of Additively Manufactured Metals
9:00–9:20AM CDT
Eleni S. Avlonitis (ANL), Xin Zhang (ANL), Miltiadis Alamaniotis (Univ. Texas, San Antonio), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
Benchmarking CNN Architectures for Enhanced Analysis of Pulsed Infrared Thermography Images of Additively Manufactured Metals for Nuclear Applications
9:20–9:40AM CDT
Derian Mowen (University of Texas at San Antonio), Xin Zhang (ANL), Miltos Alamaniotis (University of Texas at San Antonio), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
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