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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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Nuclear is ready now
Michael Goff
I don’t think we’ve ever had a busier year in the Office of Nuclear Energy, and it’s probably been decades since we’ve had this much momentum within the overall U.S. nuclear industry.
President Trump and Energy Secretary Wright have made very clear the important role that nuclear must play in meeting our energy needs, and that’s well demonstrated by the four executive orders that the president signed [more than] 375 days ago. In nuclear, we’re now talking about days, not years.
Those EOs set a goal for the United States to quadruple the amount of nuclear that we have. We need to go from the 94 reactors that we have operating right now, which generate roughly 100 gigawatts of electricity, to 400 gigawatts by 2050.
Technical Session
Monday, September 26, 2022|10:20AM–12:00PM PDT|Harbor
Session Chair:
Bor Kos (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Iole Palermo (CIEMAT)
Session Organizer:
Thomas M. Miller (ORNL)
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Radiation Shielding Estimations for the IFMIF-DONES Building Rooms During Activated High Flux Test Module Maintenance Operations
10:20–10:45AM PDT
Gediminas Stankunas (Lithuanian Energy Institute)
Paper
Shielding Design of the Helium Cooled Pebble Bed Breeding Blanket for DEMO Fusion Reactor
10:45–11:10AM PDT
Iole Palermo (CIEMAT), Francisco A. Hernández (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), Pavel Pereslavtsev (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), David Rapisarda (CIEMAT), David Sosa (CIEMAT), Guangming Zhou (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology)
Presentation Video (Visible to Attendees) — video HCPB Iole Palermo
Update of Nuclear Responses in the ITER Superconducting Magnets Using the E-lite 360⁰ Analysis Model
11:10–11:35AM PDT
M. Fabbri (Fusion For Energy), R. Pampin (Fusion for Energy), F. Gauthier (ITER Organization), N. Mitchell (ITER Organization), G. Pedroche (TECF3IR), A. Cubi (Latesys)
Advanced Shielding and Reflector Materials to Enhance the HT DCLL BB for the EU-DEMO Fusion Reactor
11:35AM–12:00PM PDT
Iole Palermo (CIEMAT), David Rapisarda (CIEMAT), David Sosa (CIEMAT)
Presentation Video (Visible to Attendees) — video HT- DCLL Iole Palermo