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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Nuclear Dirigo
On April 22, 1959, Rear Admiral George J. King, superintendent of the Maine Maritime Academy, announced that following the completion of the 1960 training cruise, cadets would begin the study of nuclear engineering. Courses at that time included radiation physics, reactor control and instrumentation, reactor theory and engineering, thermodynamics, shielding, core design, reactor maintenance, and nuclear aspects.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE)
Technical Session
Wednesday, June 15, 2022|8:00–9:45AM PDT|Huntington A
Session Chair:
Walter Guttenfelder (PPPL)
Alternate Chair:
Leigh Winfrey
Session Organizer:
Paul W. Humrickhouse (ORNL)
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W7-X and the Stellarator Path to Fusion
Thomas S. Pedersen (Max Planck Inst. for Plasma Physics)
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Final Design of the Material Plasma Exposure eXperiment
Juergen Rapp (ORNL), Arnold Lumsdaine (ORNL), Adam M. Aaron (ORNL), Theodore M. Biewer (ORNL), Tim Bigelow (ORNL), Boyd Ted (ORNL), John Caughman (ORNL), Douglas Curry (ORNL), Robert C. Duckworth (ORNL), Richard Goulding (ORNL), Michael Kaufman (ORNL), Cornwall Lau (ORNL)
From 25 Years of Fusion at Z Onward to the Next Generation of Pulsed Power
Daniel B. Sinars (Sandia)
Design of the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) Tritium Fuel Cycle
Mohamad Abdallah (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)), Iryna Bennett (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA))
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