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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Startup looks to commercialize inertial fusion energy
Another startup hoping to capitalize on progress the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has made in realizing inertial fusion energy has been launched. On August 27, San Francisco–based Inertia Enterprises, a private fusion power start-up, announced the formation of the company with the goal of commercializing fusion energy.
Technical Session|Deterministic Transport Methods and Applications
Monday, April 28, 2025|3:15–4:55PM MDT|Lawrence A
Session Chair:
Jae Chang (LANL)
Alternate Chair:
Mathew Cleveland (LANL)
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A Hybrid SN-Diffusion Method for Molten Salt Reactor Control Rod Modeling
3:15–3:40PM MDT
Sun Myung Park (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Kathryn D. Huff (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Madicken Munk (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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Response Matrix Equivalence Method Based on Relaxed Flux Continuity Equation and its Application to Reflector Homogenization for Diffusion Calculations
3:40–4:05PM MDT
Sami Machach (Polytechnique Montréal), Alain Hebert (Polytechnique Montreal)
High-Accuracy Critical Radii Analytic Expressions for Spherical Reflected Systems Based on Discontinuous Asymptotic Diffusion Theory
4:05–4:30PM MDT
Shay I. Heizler (Hebrew Univ.)
Adaptive Mesh Refinement of the Domain Decomposition+𝐿2-Jumps Method Applied to the Neutron Diffusion Equation on 3D Structured Meshes
4:30–4:55PM MDT
Mario Gervais (CEA), François Madiot (CEA), Minh-Hieu Do (CEA), Patrick Ciarlet (ENSTA)
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