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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
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|8:00–9:45AM CDT|Belmont
Session Chair:
Nicolas E. Stauff
Alternate Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Session Organizer:
Zeyun Wu
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PyARC Status Update: Recent Enhancements to a User-Friendly Open-Source Reactor Physics Framework for Fast Reactor Design and Analysis
8:00–8:20AM CDT
Kalin Kiesling (ANL), Shikhar Kumar (ANL), Nicolas E. Stauff (ANL)
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Depletion Benchmark Analysis on a Lead Fast Reactor Using PyARC/OpenMC
8:20–8:40AM CDT
Kalin Kiesling (ANL), Nicolas E. Stauff (ANL), Fausto Franceschini (Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC), Alex Levinsky (LANL)
Threading Efforts on DIF3D-VARIANT
8:40–9:00AM CDT
Micheal A. Smith (ANL)
A Bowing Reactivity Worth Capability Available in PERSENT
9:00–9:20AM CDT
Zero Power Reactor Database Hosted at Argonne National Laboratory
9:20–9:40AM CDT
Micheal A. Smith (ANL), Richard M. Lell (ANL), Aaron Oaks (ANL)
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