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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 G
Session Chair:
Fan Zhang
Alternate Chair:
Stylianos Chatzidakis
Session Organizer:
Syed Bahauddin Alam
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Non-Invasive Digitization of Existing Nuclear Power Plants
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Hank Strahley (Southern Nuclear), Harry Sim (Cypress Envirosystems)
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Advanced Cable Management Interface for the Monitoring of Cable Integrity in CANDU Nuclear Power Plants
1:20–1:40PM CDT
Ragasudha Vasudevan (Ontario Tech Univ.), Allan Ghaforian (Ontario Tech Univ.), Lixuan Lu (Ontario Tech Univ.)
A Data-Driven Approach to Core Power Distribution Reconstruction in a Nuclear Reactor
1:40–2:00PM CDT
Haoyu Wang (ANL), Roberto Ponciroli (ANL), Richard B. Vilim (ANL), Vasileios Theos (Purdue Univ.), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue Univ.)
Surrogate-Driven Variance-Based Sensitivity Analysis of Thermal Storage Tanks in Integrated Energy Systems
2:00–2:20PM CDT
Seydou Sene (Institut Polytechnique de Paris - ENSTA Paris), Linyu Lin (INL), Junyung Kim (INL), Majdi I. Radaideh (Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Presented by Leo Tunkle (Univ. Michigan)
Robot Teleoperation for Efficient Pipe Maintenance in Nuclear Facilities
2:20–2:40PM CDT
Youndo Do (Georgia Tech), Cheng-Yuan Li (Georgia Tech), Myeongjun Choi (Georgia Tech), Fan Zhang (Georgia Tech)