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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.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE 2026)
Technical Session|3. Fusion Enabling Technologies
Wednesday, June 3, 2026|10:00–11:45AM MDT|Tower D
Session Chair:
Juliana P. Duarte (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Session Organizer:
Thomas Fuerst (INL)
Track Organizer:
Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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Effective Integration of Conventional Power Generation within Fusion Plant Architecture
10:00–10:10AM MDT
Steven Albert-Green (Hatch), Nathan McNally (Hatch)
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Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees)
Demonstration of a Plasma Disruption in a Tokamak using MELCOR-TMAP
10:10–10:20AM MDT
Anthony C. Garcia (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Donkoan Hwang (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Juliana Pacheco Duarte (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Updates on Non-Planar NI-HTS Prototype Magnets for the Columbia Stellarator eXperiment (CSX)
10:20–10:30AM MDT
Dylan Schmeling (Columbia Univ.), Carlos A. Paz-Soldan (Columbia Univ.), Beruktawit Gebreamlak (Columbia Univ.), Alexander Skrypek (Columbia Univ.), Thaddaeus Kiker (Columbia Univ.), Aiden Hightower (Columbia Univ.), Jennifer Xue (Columbia Univ.), Sylvia Chen (Columbia Univ.), Sabya Sohaib (Columbia Univ.), Casandra Martinez (Columbia Univ.), Olena Teslia (Columbia Univ.), Luis Rubio Martinez (Columbia Univ.), Melanie Russo (Columbia Univ.)
Photodetachment Neutralization Concepts for Neutral Beam Injection
10:30–10:40AM MDT
Chai D. Peddeti (Eos Atomics), Connor Dietz (Eos Atomics), Ryan Weed (Eos Atomics), Craig Cahillane (Syracuse Univ.)
System-Level Modeling of Activated FLiBe Coolant in an ARC-Like Fusion Reactor
10:40–10:50AM MDT
Marco De Pietri (MIT), Ethan E. Peterson (MIT)
Radiation Sources to be Considered in the Integrated Design of a Fusion Reactor
10:50–11:00AM MDT
Michael J. Loughlin (ORNL), Ariel Marquez (ORNL)
Uncertainty Quantification of Shut Down Dose Rate in the FNG-Dose Rate Experiment
11:00–11:10AM MDT
Yogendra S. Panchal (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Bamidele Ebiwonjumi (MIT), Ethan E. Peterson (MIT), G. Ivan Maldonado (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Pb-Li MHD Experiments for Fusion Blankets: Current Data, Gaps, and a New Facility
11:10–11:20AM MDT
Ryder L. Belgarde (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Donkoan Hwang (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Craig Jacobson (Realta Fusion), Juliana Pacheco Duarte (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Incorporating AI Surrogate Modeling for Magnetohydrodynamic Flow Effects in Novel Blanket Design
11:20–11:30AM MDT
Yuqiao Fan (ORNL), Qian Gong (ORNL), Furkan Oz (ORNL), Marco G. Delchini (ORNL), Sergey Smolentsev (ORNL)
