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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|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Huntington A
Session Chair:
Paul W. Humrickhouse
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Leigh Winfrey
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Towards Exascale Integrated Simulation of Energetic Particles in Burning Plasmas
Zhihong Lin (Univ. California, Irvine)
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MOOSE: Large-Scale Parallel Multiphysics Simulation Platform
Fande Kong (INL), Alexander D. Lindsay (INL)
Unstructured Mesh Capabilities and Multiphysics Simulation with OpenMC
Patrick C. Shriwise (ANL), Andrew Davis (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority), April J. Novak (ANL), Helen M. Brooks (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority), Paul K. Romano (ANL)
Evaluation of Fusion Blanket Design Using the MOOSE Multiphysics Framework
Paul W. Humrickhouse (ORNL), Fande Kong (INL)
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