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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|Monte Carlo Methods and Applications
Monday, April 28, 2025|1:00–2:40PM MDT|Lawrence B
Session Chair:
Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Tech)
Alternate Chair:
David Griesheimer (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
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A Hybrid Cross Section Generation Method Using Monte Carlo Codes for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Nodal Diffusion Analysis
1:00–1:25PM MDT
Jacob Smith (Georgia Tech), Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Tech)
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Clarification on the Various Methods of Calculating the P1 Transport Cross Section Using Monte Carlo Codes
1:25–1:50PM MDT
Vidor H. Lujan (Georgia Tech), Bailey Painter (Georgia Tech), Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Tech)
Multigroup Cross Section Generation with the Shift Monte Carlo Code
1:50–2:15PM MDT
Tara Pandya (ORNL), Friederike Bostelmann (ORNL), Donny Hartanto (ORNL), Steven Hamilton (ORNL), Matthew Jessee (ORNL), Nicholas Luciano (ORNL), Tarek Ghaddar (ORNL)
Implementation of the Iterated Fission Probability Method in OpenMC to Compute Adjoint-Weighted Kinetics Parameters
2:15–2:40PM MDT
Joffrey Dorville (ANL), Luke Labrie-Cleary (Copenhagen Atomics), Paul K. Romano (ANL)
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