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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Startup looks to commercialize inertial fusion energy
Another startup hoping to capitalize on progress the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has made in realizing inertial fusion energy has been launched. On August 27, San Francisco–based Inertia Enterprises, a private fusion power start-up, announced the formation of the company with the goal of commercializing fusion energy.
Technical Session|Computational Fluid Dynamics and Thermal Hydraulics
Wednesday, April 30, 2025|1:00–2:40PM MDT|Horace Tabor
Session Chair:
Mauricio Tano (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Guillaume Giudicelli (INL)
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A Direct Forcing Immersed Boundary Technique Developed in the NekRS Spectral Element CFD Solver
1:00–1:25PM MDT
Aya Hegazy (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), April Novak (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Rizwan Uddin (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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Thermal Feedback Models for Microreactor Core Simulations
1:25–1:50PM MDT
Benjamin Collins (Veracity Nuclear), Micah Best (Veracity Nuclear), Aaron Graham (Veracity Nuclear)
Analysis of Fluid Flow Benchmarks for Single-Phase Liquids Using SyTH
1:50–2:15PM MDT
Austin Skiba (Univ. Texas, Austin), Nicholas Herring (Univ. Texas, Austin), Caleb Miller (Univ. Texas, Austin), Benjamin Collins (Univ. Texas, Austin), Kevin Clarno (Univ. Texas, Austin)
Implementation and Analysis of Delayed Neutron and Decay Heat Precursor Transport in the SyTH Model for Molten Salt Reactor Applications
2:15–2:40PM MDT
Braden Pecora (Univ. Texas, Austin), Benjamin S. Collins (Univ. Texas, Austin), Cole Gentry (Univ. Texas, Austin), Nicholas Herring (Univ. Texas, Austin), Kevin Clarno (Univ. Texas, Austin)
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