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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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MIT professor develops method to verify compliance with Outer Space Treaty
Danagoulian
Areg Danagoulian of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is proposing a mechanism for verifying that Earth-orbiting satellites are in compliance with the Outer Space Treaty, which prohibits the placement of nuclear weapons in space. Danagoulian’s “concept and feasibility study,” titled “Verification of the Outer Space Treaty with cosmic protons,” was published recently in the journal Nature.
Technical Session|Sponsored by FCWMD
Tuesday, June 13, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EDT|Marriott 4
Session Chair:
Robert A. Joseph
Alternate Chair:
Michael S. Smith
Session Organizer:
Milos I. Atz
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A New Momentum-Integrated Muon Tomography Imaging Algorithm
1:00–1:20PM EDT
JungHyun Bae (ORNL), Rose Montgomery (ORNL), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue)
Paper
The Performance of Ceramic Coating on Dry Storage Canisters Through Spray Coating
1:20–1:40PM EDT
Da Cao (NCSU), Mohamed Bourham (NCSU), Cheng Sun (INL), Ge Yang (NCSU)
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Evaluation of the Reliability of Wireless Internal Sensors for Dry Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel
1:40–2:00PM EDT
Robert Demuth (Univ. South Carolina), Shawn Stafford (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Jorge Carvajal (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Robert Hall (EPRI), Travis Knight (Univ. South Carolina)
In-Package Criticality Evaluation for Packages Containing Graphite Spent Nuclear Fuel in DOE Standard Canisters
2:00–2:20PM EDT
Lam Nguyen (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), G. Ivan Maldonado (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), G. Petersen (INL), R. Joseph III (INL)
