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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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Droughts, wildfires continue to impact power plants in Europe
The effects of this summer’s historic heatwave continue to be felt across Europe. Soaring temperatures and drought in the region have led to elevated river temperatures, low river levels, and wildfires, which have significantly impacted nuclear power plants across the continent.
France’s Electricité de France has reported elevated river temperatures which have forced production cuts, including recent cuts at Golfech, and nuclear power plants in Hungary, Romania, and the United Kingdom, have faced exceptional challenges in recent days.
Technical Session|Thermal Hydraulics (THD)
Tuesday, June 2, 2026|10:00–11:45AM MDT|Governor's Square 11
Session Chair:
Arsen Iskhakov
Alternate Chair:
Subash Sharma
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Physics-Informed Diffusion Model for Generation of Physically Consistent Critical Heat Flux Data
10:00–10:20AM MDT
Alexandra G. Akins (NCSU), Xu Wu
Paper
A Node-Assigned PINN Model for Coupled Heat Transfer Calculations in a PWR Hot Channel
10:20–10:40AM MDT
Fabiano G. Thulu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Autoregressive Coarse-Grid CFD/TH Forecasting with OPT-Based LLMs
10:40–11:00AM MDT
Md Jafor Dewan (NCSU), Nam T. Dinh (NCSU)
Node Assigned Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Thermal-hydraulic System Simulation CVH/FL/HS Modules
11:00–11:20AM MDT
Jeesuk Shin, DongGyun Seo, Sihyeong Yu, Joongoo Jeon (Pohang University of Science and Technology)
Prediction of Critical Heat Flux in Rod Bundles Using Tube-Based Hybrid Machine Learning Models in CTF
11:20–11:40AM MDT
Aidan J. Furlong (NCSU), Robert K. Salko (ORNL), Xu Wu, Xingang Zhao (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)