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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
Tuesday, June 17, 2025|1:00–2:45PM CDT|Miami/Scottsdale
Session Chair:
Jason Castro
Alternate Chair:
Syed Bahauddin Alam
Session Organizer:
Hyun Gook Kang
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Secure Anomaly Detection in Advanced Reactor Through Quantum Federated Learning with Advanced Cryptography
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Sai Puppala (Southern Illinois Univ.), Ismail Hossain (Univ. Texas, El Paso), Jahangir Alam (Univ. Texas, El Paso), Kazuma Kobayashi (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Samrendra Roy (National Center for Supercomputing Applications), Syed Bahauddin Alam (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Sajedul Talukder (Univ. Texas, El Paso)
Paper
Action-Based Prediction for Mitigation Actions in Severe Accident at Nuclear Power Plants
1:20–1:40PM CDT
Hyojin Kim (KAIST), Jonghyun Kim (KAIST)
Lessons Learned from Issues Affecting Radiation Monitors
1:40–2:00PM CDT
Christina Novogoratz (EPRI)
Hardware-Based Reference Signatures
2:00–2:20PM CDT
Jason Castro (EPRI)
MESAC - A Model-Based Approach for the Safety Analysis of Crane Control Systems in Nuclear Power Plants
2:20–2:40PM CDT
Hervé Mbonjo (GRS), Christian Korn (GRS), Patrick Gebhardt (GRS), Jaroslaw Shvab (GRS), Ewgenij Piljugin (GRS)
Cost-Effective Methods of Changing Instrumentation and Control Rooms from Analog to Digital in a Single Outage
2:40–3:00PM CDT
Otto P. Fest (OTEK Corporation)