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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
Standards Program
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Startup looks to commercialize inertial fusion energy
Another startup hoping to capitalize on progress the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has made in realizing inertial fusion energy has been launched. On August 27, San Francisco–based Inertia Enterprises, a private fusion power start-up, announced the formation of the company with the goal of commercializing fusion energy.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Tuesday, June 17, 2025|3:15–5:00PM CDT|Belmont
Session Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni
Alternate Chair:
Ishita Trivedi (INL)
Session Organizer:
Zeyun Wu
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Recent Updates on High-Fidelity Multiphysics Microreactors Modeling Using MOOSE-based Applications
3:15–3:35PM CDT
Yinbin Miao (ANL), Ahmed Abdelhameed (ANL), Yan Cao (ANL), Soon K. Lee (ANL), Lander Ibarra (ANL), Adam Kraus (ANL), Kun Mo (ANL), Nicolas Stauff (ANL), Christopher Matthews (LANL)
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Multiphysics Framework Comparison for a Liquid Metal Microreactor
3:35–3:55PM CDT
Samuel Garcia (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Mohammad A. Allaf (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Isaac Naupa (Penn State), Lewis I. Gross (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Tech), Ben Lindley (University of Wisconsin Madison)
Neutronic and Depletion Analyses of the Demonstration LFR
3:55–4:15PM CDT
Malak Bani-Melhem (Univ. New Mexico), Osman Anderoglu (Univ. New Mexico), Christopher M. Perfetti (Univ. New Mexico), Ragai Altamimi (ORNL)
Running-in Phase Analysis for Generic Pebble-Bed Fluoride-Salt-Cooled High-Temperature Reactor (FHR)
4:15–4:35PM CDT
Junsu Kang (Kairos Power), Fanny Vitullo (Kairos Power), Nader Satvat (Kairos Power)
Initial NaNuC Neutronics Code-to-Code Comparisons for MSRs with SCALE, Serpent, and OpenMC
4:35–4:55PM CDT
Soha Aslam (The University of Texas at Austin), Ondrej Chvala (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Harrison Reisinger (The University of Texas at Austin), Kevin T. Clarno (Univ. Texas, Austin)
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