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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
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|1:00–2:45PM CDT|Great America 1/2
Session Chair:
Brian Kiedrowski
Alternate Chair:
Sebastian Schunert
Session Organizer:
Koroush Shirvan
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Optimizing MCNP Parallelization for High-Performance Computing Efficiency on Rocinante
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Elijah Boland (LANL)
Paper
Analysing Nuclear Reactor Severe Accident Time-Wise Propagation Stages Using DTIA
1:20–1:40PM CDT
Karim Hossny (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Walter Villanueva (Bangor Univ.)
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees)
Sensitivity Coefficients of Unresolved Resonance Probability Table Cross Sections
1:40–2:00PM CDT
Brian C. Kiedrowski (Univ. Michigan)
Forecasting Time Series of Fluid Temperature Measurements with Transformers
2:00–2:20PM CDT
Zofie Christian (The University of Chicago), Stella Pantopoulou (Purdue Univ.), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)