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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|Advanced Reactor Design and Analysis - Circulating-Fuel Reactors
Wednesday, April 30, 2025|8:00–9:40AM MDT|E.P. Ensley B
Session Chair:
Joshua Hanophy (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Dean Wang (Ohio State)
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A Computationally Tractable Model for Spatially Resolved Nuclide Concentrations in Flowing Fuel Molten Salt Reactors
8:00–8:25AM MDT
Luke Seifert (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Shayan Shahbazi (ANL), Scott Richards (ANL), Madicken Munk (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Kathryn Huff (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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Role of Recirculation in Reactivity Loss in Circulating-Fuel Reactors
8:25–8:50AM MDT
Lubomir Bures (Seaborg Technologies)
Low Resolution Simulation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Molten Salt Irradiation Flow Loop
8:50–9:15AM MDT
Seth Dayawansa (Univ. Texas, Austin), Kevin T. Clarno (Univ. Texas, Austin), David Carpenter (MIT), Charles Forsberg (MIT)
Modeling Continuous Online Refueling with SCALE 6.3.1 and Serpent-2 in the EIRENE Novel Molten Salt Reactor Design
9:15–9:40AM MDT
C. Erika Moss (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Ondrej Chvala (Univ. Texas, Austin), Donny Hartanto (ORNL), John P. Carter (INL)
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