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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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EnCore receives BLM authorization for dormant uranium project
EnCore Energy announced on June 18 that the Bureau of Land Management issued a final decision and approved the Dewey Burdock uranium project, authorizing the company to begin construction for the uranium in situ recovery project in southwestern South Dakota.
Technical Session|Operations and Power (OPD)
Wednesday, June 3, 2026|8:00–9:45AM MDT|Director's Row H
Session Chair:
Prashant Jain
Alternate Chair:
Khaldoon Al-Dawood
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Review of Turbine Upgrade Methodology in Support of Nuclear Power Plant Uprate
8:00–8:20AM MDT
Khaldoon Al-Dawood (INL), Junyung Kim (INL), Tyler Westover (INL)
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Functional Decomposition Approach for Early-Stage Nuclear Power Plant Design and Scaling
8:20–8:40AM MDT
Khaldoon Al-Dawood (INL), Chandrakanth Bolisetti (INL), Abdalla Abou-Jaoude (INL)
Lean Delivery for the Nuclear Renaissance: A Delivery Framework for SMRs and Advanced Nuclear Projects
8:40–9:00AM MDT
Haley Rogers (Boulder Associates), Sean Noonan (Whiting-Turner)
Advanced Small Modular Reactors Technology Readiness Level According to Maritime Applicability
9:00–9:20AM MDT
Aleksey Rezvoi, Nima Fathi (TAMU)
Evaluation of Potential Uses of LLMs to Compile Reactor Data
9:20–9:40AM MDT
Michael Parnell (TAMU), Pavel V. Tsvetkov (TAMU)