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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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ORNL, INL make deals on AI for nuclear licensing
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
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|4:30–6:15PM EDT
Session Chair:
Christina Leggett (Booz Allen Hamilton)
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Alternate Chair:
Benjamin B. Cipiti (Sandia National Laboratories)
Staff Producer:
Mich Leana (ANS)
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Elastic Waveform Tomography of Spent Nuclear Fuel Casks
Othman Oudghiri-Idrissi (Univ. of Minnesota), Mohammad HanifehZadeh (Univ. of Southern California), Bora E. Gencturk (Univ. of Southern California), Roger G. Ghanem (Univ. of Southern California), Bojan B. Guzina (Univ. of Minnesota)
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Oxalic Acid Dissolution System for Mercury Recovery Process Optimization
Michael Smith (Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte), Sven Bader (Orano Federal Services), Thomas Koch (Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte), Arthur Niemoller (Orano Federal Services), Andrew Straight (Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte)
SMR Gadolinia Burnable Absorber Loading Design in a No-Onsite Refueling Core Neutronics Performance Assessment
Gray Chang (JFoster and Associates), Julie Foster (JFoster and Associates), Jim Harrell (Zachry Nuclear), Mie Hiruta (JFoster & Assoc.)
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Comparison of Desiccation Cracks between Bentonite and Inorganic Microfiber Reinforced Bentonite for Engineered Barrier System
Yuan Feng (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln), Jongwan Eun (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln), Seunghee Kim (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln), Yong-Rak Kim (Texas A&M Univ.)
Development of a Heat Signature Computational Simulation for Safeguarded Spent Nuclear Fuel
Alvaro Pizarro-Vallejos (Univ. of Illinois Urbana Champaign), Michael D. Kaminski (ANL), Jeffrey Fortner (ANL)
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