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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 THD
Monday, June 16, 2025|1:00–2:45PM CDT|Great America 1/2
Session Chair:
Dillon R. Shaver
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Carolina Dutra (Penn State)
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Interface Capturing Simulations of the Impact of Shear Rate Variations on the Interfacial Forces Acting on a Bubble
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Maxim Khvostov (NCSU), Igor A. Bolotnov (NCSU)
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Spectrally Resolved Interface Capturing Simulations of Bubble Sparging in Glass Melters
1:20–1:40PM CDT
Nadish Saini (ANL), Donna P. Guillen (INL), Dillon R. Shaver (ANL)
An Overview of the Phase-II of the NEAMS Thermal-hydraulics IRP
1:40–2:00PM CDT
Elia Merzari (Penn State), Tri Nguyen (Penn State), Dillon R. Shaver (ANL), Emilio Baglietto (MIT), Nam T. Dinh (NCSU), Igor A. Bolotnov (NCSU), Yassin A. Hassan (TAMU)
DNS Investigation of Turbulent Mixed Convection in a Vertical Channel Under Transient Conditions
2:00–2:20PM CDT
Alexey Burbasov (NCSU), Tri Nguyen (Penn State), Elia Merzari (Penn State), Igor A. Bolotnov (NCSU)
Simulations of External Flow Around Twisted Elliptical Tubes for Above Unity Prandtl Numbers and Low to Moderate Reynolds Numbers
2:20–2:40PM CDT
Sierra Tutwiler (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Dillon R. Shaver (ANL), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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