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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.
Nuclear Plant Instrumentation and Control & Human-Machine Interface Technology (NPIC&HMIT 2025)
Technical Session
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|1:00–2:45PM CDT|Chicago Ballroom F
Session Chair:
Diego Mandelli
Alternate Chair:
Jonghyun Kim
Session Organizer:
Hyun Gook Kang
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Harnessing Quantum Algorithms in Nuclear Engineering
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Samrendra Roy (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Kazuma Kobayashi (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Sajedul Talukder (University of Texas El Paso), Syed Bahauddin Alam (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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A Privacy-Aware Cyber Attack Detection Framework for Advanced Reactors Using Data Fusion and Quantum Deep Learning
1:20–1:40PM CDT
Ismail Hossain (Univ. Texas, El Paso), Sai Puppala (Southern Illinois University Carbondale), Jahangir Alam (Univ. Texas, El Paso), Samrendra Roy (National Center for Supercomputing Applications), Kazuma Kobayashi (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Syed Bahauddin Alam (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Sajedul Talukder (Univ. Texas, El Paso)
Data Analytics Methods to Measure Plant Outage Resilience
1:40–2:00PM CDT
D. Mandelli (INL), S. St. Germain (INL), C. Wang (INL), E. Chen (INL), J. Mapes (INL), A. Al Rashdan (INL), S. Lawrence (INL)
Capturing Historic Reliability Performance Through Graph Databases: A Model-Based System Engineering Approach
2:00–2:20PM CDT
D. Mandelli (INL), C. Wang (INL), C.M. Godbole (INL), V. Agarwal (INL), M. Movassat (OPG), D. Liang (OPG), E. Nur (OPG)
Artificial Intelligence Application for Cost-Benefit Analysis of Digital Upgrades for Nuclear Power Plants
2:20–2:40PM CDT
C. Howard (Univ. Wisconsin Madison), S. Belling (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), J. McCague (Sargent & Lundy, LLC)