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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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LLNL, Ampera partner to develop thorium-based TRISO fuel
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has formed a strategic partnership with Ampera to develop the company’s nuclear fuel concept through a project named THUNDER, for Thorium Unimodal Droplet Ejection for Reactors.
The focus of THUNDER is fabricating TRISO made with kernels of thorium rather than the usual uranium. LLNL and Ampera will evaluate and optimize liquid metal–jetting technology to produce highly uniform, spherical kernels of thorium-232 for later processing into TRISO fuel.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MCD
Tuesday, June 17, 2025|3:15–5:00PM CDT|Armitage
Session Chair:
Moataz Harb
Alternate Chair:
Sebastian Schunert
Session Organizer:
Koroush Shirvan
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Analytical Benchmarks for Unresolved Resonance Probability Table Sampling
3:15–3:35PM CDT
Brian C. Kiedrowski (Univ. Michigan)
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Tensorization of the Neutron Transport Equation with Discontinuous Isogeometric Analysis
3:35–3:55PM CDT
Patrick Myers (Univ. Michigan), Majdi I. Radaideh (Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor), Brian C. Kiedrowski (Univ. Michigan)
Adaptive Mesh Refinement Applied to Unstructured Mesh Tallies in Cardinal-OpenMC
3:55–4:15PM CDT
Kevin C. Sawatzky (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Ebny W. Ahammed (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Paul P. Wilson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Patrick C. Shriwise (ANL), Paul Romano (ANL), April Novak (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Hybrid Lattice Boltzmann-Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Approach for Neutron Transport Equation
4:15–4:35PM CDT
Atharva Deshpande (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Student Section), Rizwan-uddin LNU (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Verification of the Finite Element Method Energy Discretization in SCEPTRE
4:35–4:55PM CDT
Harley Hanes (Sandia National Laboratories, North Carolina State University), Brian Freno (Sandia), Shawn D. Pautz (Sandia)