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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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The United States has tight new deadlines—18 months, max—for licensing commercial reactor designs. The Department of Energy is marshaling the nuclear expertise and high-performance computing assets of its national laboratories, in partnership with private tech companies, to develop generative AI tools and large-scale simulations that could help get nuclear reactor designs through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s licensing process—or the DOE’s own reactor pilot program. “Accelerate” and “streamline” are the verbs of choice in recent announcements from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory, as they describe plans with Atomic Canyon, Microsoft, and Amazon.
Technical Session|Sponsored by FCWMD
Monday, June 14, 2021|3:15–5:00PM EDT
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Jinsuo Zhang (Virginia Tech)
Alternate Chair:
Christina Leggett (Booz Allen Hamilton)
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Mich Leana (ANS)
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Modeling Local-Structure of Salt Melts Using a Structure Predictor Algorithm
Matthew S. Christian (Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia), Amir M. Mofrad (Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia), Timothy J. Lynch (Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs), Nancy R. Birkner (Clemson Univ.), Juliano Schrone-Pinto (Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia), Kyle Brinkman (Clemson Univ.), Wilson K.S. Chiu (Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs), Theodore M. Besmann (Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia)
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Artificial Neural Network Potentials for Atomistic Simulation in Multi-Component Molten Salts
Stephen Lam (Univ. of Massachusetts Lowell), Charles Forsberg (MIT), Ju Li (MIT)
Corrosion System-Focused Expansion and Application of the Thermochemical Database for Molten Salt Reactors: MSTDB-TC
Theodore M. Besmann (Univ. of South Carolina), Jacob A. Yingling (Univ. of South Carolina), Johnathon C. Ard (Univ. of South Carolina), Juliano Schorne-Pinto (Univ. of South Carolina), Mina Aziziha (Univ. of South Carolina), Matthew S. Christian (Univ. of South Carolina), Amir Mofrad (Univ. of South Carolina), Kaitlin E. Johnson (ORNL), Can Agca (ORNL), Jake W. McMurray (ORNL), Ruchi Gakhar (INL)
Chlorine-37 Fuel Cycles for Molten-Chloride Fast Reactors
Charles Forsberg (MIT)
Growth of Molten Salt Reactor Sourdough
Alexander M. Wheeler (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Ondrej Chvála (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville)
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