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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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NN Asks: Is the U.S. ready for nuclear construction to accelerate?
Craig Stover
Yes, but . . .
The United States is better positioned today for nuclear construction than it has been in decades. Some of that comes from the experience gained at Vogtle and V.C. Summer. I was part of the team that helped start the V.C. Summer project in 2008, and at that time we were trying to build a nuclear construction workforce from scratch. We learned a lot through that effort, and many of those lessons learned have since been studied, documented, and shared.
The nuclear industry is also benefiting from the wave of investment that started growing around 2020. Over the last five or six years, there has been a serious effort across the country to get ready for new nuclear builds. The U.S. government and the private sector are investing billions of dollars in new nuclear. Much of that work is happening before widespread commercial deployment contracts are signed. This is real, and we need to prepare.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE)
Technical Session
Thursday, June 16, 2022|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Huntington B/C
Session Chair:
Jason Trelewicz (Stony Brook Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Lauren M. Garrison (ORNL)
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Nuclear Data Experiments for Fusion: Challenges, Successes, and Future Needs
Mark Gilbert (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority)
Paper
Small Specimen Test Technique Development for Materials Qualification Using Fusion Neutron Source
Xiang Chen (ORNL), Mikhail A. Sokolov (ORNL), Takashi Nozawa (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology), Hiroyasu Tanigawa (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology), Yao Shen (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Takuya Nagasaka (National Institute of Fusion Science), Jingjie Shen (National Institute for Fusion Science), Mario Walter (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Emile Gaganidze (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Jarir Aktaa (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Shuhei Nogami (Tohoku University), Mitsuru Ohata (Osaka Univ.), Marta Serrano (CIEMAT), Rebeca Hernández (CIEMAT), David Andres (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority), Henk Nolles (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority), Yiqiang Wang (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority), Yutai Katoh (ORNL), Sehila Maria Gonzalez de Vicente (International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA))
Specimen Size Effects on Creep Properties of F82H Reduced-Activation Ferritic Steel
Takuya Nagasaka (National Institute of Fusion Science), Jingjie Shen (National Institute for Fusion Science), Masami Ando (National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology), Taichiro Kato (National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology), Takashi Nozawa (National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology), Hiroyasu Tanigawa (National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology)
Flexural Testing of Neutron Irradiated Tungsten Materials by Three-Point Bend
Nathan C. Reid (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Lauren M. Garrison (ORNL), Trevor Marchhart (Penn State), Jean Paul Allain (Penn State)
Influence of Fatigue Precracking and Specimen Size on the Master Curve Fracture Toughness Measurements of EUROFER97 and F82H Steels
Xiang Chen (ORNL), Marta Serrano (CIEMAT), Rebeca Hernández (CIEMAT), Mikhail A. Sokolov (ORNL)
