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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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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.
19th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2025)
Technical Session|Sponsored by NISD
Tuesday, June 17, 2025|1:00–2:45PM CDT|Northwestern/Ohio State
Session Chair:
Paul J. Amico
Alternate Chair:
Katrina Groth
Session Organizer:
David Grabaskas
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Insights, Limits, and Projections Regarding EDF's First Heat Wave PSA
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Cecile Luzoir (EDF R&D), François Cherpin (EDF), Diego Huescar (EDF), Manon Jouve (EDF)
Paper
On Supporting the Assessment and Evaluation of Protection against External Hazards Using PSA
1:20–1:40PM CDT
Tamas Siklossy (NUBIKI Nuclear Safety Research Institu), Attila Bareith (NUBIKI Nuclear Safety Research Institu)
Implications of License Renewal of Aging NPPs: A Case Study on the Impact of External Hazards on an Aging Containment Building
1:40–2:00PM CDT
Akram S. Batikh (NCSU), Yahya A. Alzahrani (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
Correlation Between Weather Alerts and Grid Component Failures for Grid Alert
2:00–2:20PM CDT
Steven Prescott (INL), Ronald Gonzales (INL), Kurt Vedros (INL), Daniel Nevius (INL), Bjorn Vaagensmith (INL), Jared Nielson (INL), Amara Tariq (INL)
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Seismic and Non-Seismic External Event PSA of the Slovak NPPs with VVER440 Reactors
2:20–2:40PM CDT
Zoltan Kovacs (RELKO Ltd), Pavol Hlavac (RELKO Ltd), Robert Spenlinger (RELKO Ltd)
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