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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|Verification, Validation, and Benchmark Experiment Design
Monday, April 28, 2025|10:00–11:40AM MDT|E.P. Ensley A
Session Chair:
Gray S. Chang (J. Foster and Associates)
Alternate Chair:
Cole Gentry (Univ. Texas, Austin)
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Comparison of the ECCO/ERANOS and APOLLO3(r) Code for Molten Salt Fast Reactors Design Studies
10:00–10:25AM MDT
Dusan Marjanovic (CEA), Nicolin Garnier (CEA), Giogio Valocchi (CEA), Jean Tommasi (CEA)
Presented by Maciej Zajaczkowski (CEA)
Paper
Modified Algorithm for Taking into Account Delayed Neutron Precursor Movement in the Improved Quasi-Static Scheme of the SIMMER-III Code
10:25–10:50AM MDT
Barbara Kędzierska (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), Andrei Rineiski (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), Yoshiharu Tobita (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology)
Graphite-Moderated Molten Salt Reactor Progression Problems
10:50–11:15AM MDT
Cole A. Gentry (Univ. Texas, Austin), Rok Krpan (TAMU), Kevin Clarno (Univ. Texas, Austin), Carlo Fiorina (TAMU), Jean Ragusa (TAMU), Benjamin Collins (Univ. Texas, Austin)
The Neutronics Codes FENNECS and FRENETIC: Code-to-code Benchmarking on Lead and Sodium-cooled Fast Reactors
11:15–11:40AM MDT
Nicolo' Abrate (Politecnico di Torino), Jeremy Bousquet (GRS), Sandra Dulla (Politecnico di Torino), Silvia lo Muzio (GRS), Armin Seubert (GRS), Christian Vita (Politecnico di Torino)
