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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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DOE announces $17.5B in conditional loans for AP1000 builds
Earlier today, the Department of Energy announced that it has issued a conditional loan commitment to finance the purchase of “long-lead time items needed to rebuild America’s commercial nuclear supply chain.”
The American Nuclear Supply Chain Loans on offer are worth $17.5 billion and intended to help finance up to five projects to build a total of 10 new AP1000 reactors, with construction aimed to begin by 2030.
Technical Session|Sensitivity Analysis and Uncertainty Quantification
Tuesday, April 29, 2025|10:00–11:40AM MDT|Horace Tabor
Session Chair:
Ben Murphy (Univ. New Mexico)
Alternate Chair:
Colin Weaver (LANL)
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A Low-Fidelity Covariance Library in EPICS for Photon-Electron Radiation Transport Applications
10:00–10:25AM MDT
Mekiel Olguin (Sandia), Christopher M. Perfetti (Univ. New Mexico), Aaron J. Olson (Sandia), Brian C. Franke (Sandia)
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Preliminary Verification of Fixed-Source Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis in OpenMC
10:25–10:50AM MDT
Bamidele Ebiwonjumi (MIT), Benoit Forget (MIT), Ethan Peterson (MIT)
CWENO Interpolation for Non-Oscillatory Stochastic Collocation in Uncertainty Quantification Problems
10:50–11:15AM MDT
Alina Chertock (NCSU), Arsen S. Iskhakov (Kansas State), Anna Iskhakova (Kansas State), Alexander Kurganov (Southern Univ., China)
Advancing the STS Neutron Moderator Optimization with an Automated Workflow and Unstructured Mesh Modeling
11:15–11:40AM MDT
Kristel Ghoos (ORNL), Lukas Zavorka (ORNL), Igor Remec (ORNL)
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