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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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Front-end nuclear fuel supply cooperation: Turning allied interdependence into strategic advantage
The global nuclear revival, which is fueled by unprecedented demand for firm, affordable, dispatchable power for artificial intelligence and data center build-out, energy security imperatives, and climate commitments, has exposed a structural reality of the Western fuel cycle: No single allied nation currently possesses the full suite of front-end capabilities. From mining through conversion, enrichment, fabrication, and the emerging deconversion and metallization steps required for reactor fuels, capability is distributed across Canada, France, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States (collectively, the “Sapporo Five”), as well as a small group of close partners.
Technical Session|Multi-Scale, Multi-Physics Simulations
Wednesday, April 30, 2025|1:00–2:40PM MDT|E.P. Ensley A
Session Chair:
Logan Harbour (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Jin Whan Bae (ORNL)
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Verification of a Multiphysics Gas-Cooled Reactor Simulation via the Method of Manufactured Solutions
1:00–1:25PM MDT
Zane G. Tucker (Oregon State), Todd S. Palmer (Oregon State)
Paper
Pebbles' Life Cycle Analysis in Salt-Cooled Pebble Bed Reactor for Enhanced Fuel Performance Assessment
1:25–1:50PM MDT
Ludovic Jantzen (Univ. California, Berkeley), Yves Robert (Univ. California, Berkeley), Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. California, Berkeley)
In-Memory, Fully-Parallel Coupling of GeN-Foam and OFFBEAT: Towards a New Milestone in High-Fidelity, Finite-Volume Nuclear Reactor Simulation
1:50–2:15PM MDT
Giovanni Nervi (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Alessandro Scolaro (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Thomas Guilbaud (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Carlo Fiorina (TAMU), Mathieu Hursin (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
Cell-Wise Temperature and Deformation Reactivity Feedback Modeling in Heat Pipe-Cooled Microreactors
2:15–2:40PM MDT
Chiara Genoni (TAMU), Carlo Fiorina (TAMU), Vefa Kucukboyaci (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Fausto Franceschini (Westinghouse Mangiarotti), Alessandro Scolaro (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
