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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Startup looks to commercialize inertial fusion energy
Another startup hoping to capitalize on progress the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has made in realizing inertial fusion energy has been launched. On August 27, San Francisco–based Inertia Enterprises, a private fusion power start-up, announced the formation of the company with the goal of commercializing fusion energy.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|2:15–4:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Kristin Stolte (TAMU)
Session Organizer:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov (TAMU)
Staff Producer:
Julie Bry (ANS)
This is a standing RPD session with papers on all general reactor physics topics of contemporary interest.
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Multi-Physics Sensitivity Analysis of BEAVRS 1st Cycle using MPCORE
Alexey Cherezov (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology), Awais Zahur (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology), Chidong Kong (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology), Deokjung Lee (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology)
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Reactivity Underestimation of ENDF/B-VIII.0 Compared with ENDF/B-VII.1 for the Pressurized Water Reactor Depletion Analysis
Kang-Seog Kim (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
Using MCNP and NJOY to Verify Charged Particle Data in CP2020
D. Kent Parsons (LANL), Cecile Toccoli (LANL)
Pre-Conceptual Design of a Gas-Cooled Microreactor with Two-Phase Composite Moderators
Edward M. Duchnowski (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Robert F. Kile (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Jacob P. Gorton (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville)
A Benchmark Model for Kairos Power's Pebble-Bed Fluoride-Salt-Cooled High Temperature Reactor
Nader Satvat (Kairos Power), Fatih Sarikurt (Kairos Power), Kevin Johnson (Kairos Power), Ian Kolaja (Kairos Power), Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. of California Berkeley)
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