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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 IRD
Tuesday, June 15, 2021|2:15–4:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
James M. Bowen
Alternate Chair:
Samuel E. Glover
Session Organizer:
Igor Jovanovic
Staff Producer:
Susan Gallier (ANS)
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Exploring Production of Uranium-232 for Use as an Additive to Nuclear Fuel
Joshua Rhodes (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Brandon Grogan (ORNL), Alan Krichinsky (ORNL), Brad Patton (ORNL), G. Ivan Maldonado (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville)
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Uranium Isotopic Characterization System Utilizing Laser Techniques
Yichen Zhao (Oregon State Univ.), Haori Yang (Oregon State Univ.)
iDoubleRad: Cyber-physical System for Enhancing Security of Radiation Measurements in IoT Connected Detectors based on Spectra Comparison using Fuzzy Theil-II Measure
Miltiadis Alamaniotis (Univ. of Texas at San Antonio)
Irradiation Testing Methods for Fast Spectrum Reactor Fuels and Materials in DOE's Thermal Spectrum Test Reactors
N. Woolstenhulme (INL), G.L. Beausoleil (INL), C. Jensen (INL), C. Petrie (ORNL), D. Wachs (INL)
Development of the MIT Research Reactor Simulator for Education, Training, and Research
Lin-wen Hu (MIT), Sara Hauptman (MIT), Oussama Ashy (WSC), Sergei Korolev (WSC)
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