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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Joint NEA project performs high-burnup test
An article in the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s July news bulletin noted that a first test has been completed for the High Burnup Experiments in Reactivity Initiated Accident (HERA) project. The project aim is to understand the performance of light water reactor fuel at high burnup under reactivity-initiated accidents (RIA).
Technical Session
Wednesday, October 6, 2021|8:30–10:10AM EDT
Session Chairs:
Imre Pázsit (Chalmers University of Technology)
Anil Prinja (Univ. of New Mexico)
Session Organizers:
Anil K. Prinja (Univ. of New Mexico)
Student Producer:
Vincent Novellino (NC State Univ.)
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Lénárd Pál - His Time, His Professional Life, and Reminiscences of a Collaboration
8:30–8:55AM EDT
I. Pázsit (Chalmers Univ. of Technology)
Paper
The Contribution of Erwin Schroedinger to the Calculation of the Extinction Probability and its Comparison with the Work of Lénárd Pál
8:55–9:20AM EDT
M.M.R. Williams (Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine)
Pál-Bell Theory: Beyond the Neutron Number Distribution
9:20–9:45AM EDT
Anil K. Prinja (Univ. of New Mexico), Patrick F. O'Rourke (LANL)
Towards a More Realistic Analysis of Neutron Clustering
9:45–10:10AM EDT
Thomas M. Sutton (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
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