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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 THD
Monday, June 14, 2021|1:00–2:45PM EDT
Session Chair:
Mihai Diaconeasa (NCSU)
Alternate Chair:
David Holler (NCSU)
Session Organizer:
Igor A. Bolotnov
Staff Producer:
Jessie Vazquez (ANS)
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Sensitivity Analysis Characterization of Fuel System Thermal Property Impacts for Transient Critical Heat Flux Experiments in TREAT
Richard Hernandez (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Robert J. Armstrong (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Seokbin Seo (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Charles P. Folsom (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Colby B. Jensen (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville)
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Effect of Non-Uniform Particle Distribution on Particle Deposition in iPWRs
Rohan Biwalkar (Pittsburgh Technical), Sola Talabi (Pittsburgh Technical)
Hybrid NI-FEM for 2D Steady-State Stokes and Navier-Stokes Equations
Sundar Namala (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Rizwan-uddin (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
In-Plane Oval-Twisted Spiral Tube Heat Exchanger for Nuclear Applications
Amir Ali (Idaho State Univ.), Piyush Sabharwall (INL)
Exploring Thermal Hydraulic Features with CFD Analysis of MICAS Facility
Harshit Bhatia (DES-STMF, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay), Ulrich Bieder (DES-STMF, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay), David Guenadou (CEA Cadarache)
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