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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
Tuesday, April 29, 2025|10:00–11:40AM MDT|E.P. Ensley A
Session Chair:
Ville Valtavirta (VTT Technical Research Centre)
Alternate Chair:
Cole Gentry (Univ. Texas, Austin)
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EDIM Local Power History and Burnup Inference Based on Destructive Assay Data
10:00–10:25AM MDT
Shiming Yin (Purdue Univ.), Tarikul Islam (Purdue Univ.), Ugur Mertyurek (ORNL), Germina Procop (ORNL), Hany Abdel-Khalik (Purdue Univ.)
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Activation Calculation Comparison for FISPACT-II, ORIGEN, and OpenMC
10:25–10:50AM MDT
Jin Whan Bae (ORNL), Yves Robert (ORNL)
Multi-Cycle Neutronics Verification in the Kraken Framework
10:50–11:15AM MDT
Ville Valtavirta (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)
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Alpha Eigenvalue and Beta-Effective Calculations of High Multiplication Uranium Experiments
11:15–11:40AM MDT
William Zywiec (LLNL), Jesse Norris (LLNL), Samuel Varghese (LLNL), David Heinrichs (LLNL), Daniel Siefman (LLNL), Edward Lent (LLNL), Chuck Lee (LLNL), Anthony Nelson (LLNL)
