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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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A closer look at the initial NLIC selections—Part 2
In January, the Department of Energy announced its new Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campus (NLIC) program, inviting states via a request for information to express their interest in hosting a facility supporting work from the front to the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle.
By April, 26 states had expressed interest in hosting such a facility. At the end of July, the DOE signed memorandums of understanding with five states—Idaho, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Utah—to more closely explore the possibilities of state-federal partnerships. These MOUs are not firm commitments from either the federal or state governments. Time will tell which—if any—of the five states develop projects through the program. In the meantime, today, we are taking a close look at what Utah, Idaho, Tennessee can offer in terms of a preexisting nuclear sector that could support new fuel cycle developments.
Technical Session|Sensitivity Analysis and Uncertainty Quantification
Monday, April 28, 2025|1:00–2:40PM MDT|Horace Tabor
Session Chair:
Ben Murphy (Univ. of New Mexico)
Alternate Chair:
Kevin Clarno (Univ. Texas, Austin)
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Application of Fuel Depletion Chain Simplification to Experiment Analysis in the Advanced Test Reactor
1:00–1:25PM MDT
Travis J. Labossiere-Hickman (INL), Olin W. Calvin (INL)
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Uncertainty Quantification for Watts Bar 1 PWR Using High-Fidelity Whole Core Model in WIMS® and the Latin Hypercube Sampling Method
1:25–1:50PM MDT
Jean Lavarenne (Amentum), Tim Ware (Amentum), Magda Stefanowska-Skrodzka (Amentum), Kornelia Wolodzko (Amentum), William Poole (Amentum), Peter Smith (Amentum), Glynn Hosking (Amentum), Brendan Tollit (Amentum)
Uncertainty Quantification Of Fuel Assembly Bow In Pressurized Water Reactor Through a Thermomechanical Simulation
1:50–2:15PM MDT
Ali Abboud (CEA), Josselin Garnier (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Bertrand Leturcq (CEA), Julien Pacull (Framatome), Olivier Fandeur (CEA), Stanislas de Lambert (CEA)
Analytic Sensitivity Coefficients for Bethe's Solution of the Neutron Slowing Down Equation
2:15–2:40PM MDT
Colin A. Weaver (LANL), Michael E. Rising (LANL), Joel A. Kulesza (LANL), Pablo A. Vaquer (LANL)
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