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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|Safeguards, Security, and Nonproliferation
Thursday, August 20, 2026|9:00–10:45AM CDT|Promenade Ballroom A
Session Chair:
Melissa A. Rose (ANL)
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Diversion Path Analysis: A Proposed Methodology to Develop an MC&A Approach for Liquid-Fueled Molten Salt Reactors
9:00–9:20AM CDT
Karen K. Hogue (ORNL), Maggie Arno (ORNL), Peter W. Sobel (ORNL)
Paper
Advanced Salt Monitoring for Safeguards of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
9:20–9:40AM CDT
Amber L. Polke (Argonne National Lab), Katharine Stasior, Drace Penley, Nora Shaheen, William Doniger, Denis L. Johnson (Argonne National Lab), Jason Gross, Alexandra G. Akins, Laura Maggos (ANL), Alexander Heifetz (ANL), Tim Nguyen, Richard B. Vilim (ANL), Nicholas J. Condon (ANL), Nathaniel Hoyt
Deployment of Voltammetry and Bubbler Sensors as Process Monitoring Tools in Pyroprocessing Facilities
9:40–10:00AM CDT
Ammon N. Williams (INL), Christopher Gundersen (INL), Rachelle Austin (INL), David A. Horvath (INL), Robert Hoover (INL)
Quantifying Uranium in Complex Molten Chlorides: Resolving U(III)/U(IV) amid Fission Products
10:00–10:20AM CDT
Timothy J. Kim (Chemical and Fuel Cycle Technologies Division, Argonne National Laboratory), William Doniger, Nora Shaheen, Nathaniel Hoyt
Quantification and Mitigation of Uncertainty for Material Accountancy Measurements in Molten Salt Systems
10:20–10:40AM CDT
Nora A. Shaheen (ANL), Timothy J. Kim (ANL), William Doniger (ANL), Amber Polke (ANL), Drace Penley (ANL), Katharine Stasior (ANL), Matthew Jubinsky (ANL), Nathaniel Hoyt (ANL)
