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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|Special Session on Random Ray Transport
Tuesday, April 29, 2025|3:15–4:55PM MDT|E.P. Ensley A
Session Chair:
John Tramm (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
Elliott Biondo (ORNL)
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Linear Source Random Ray on GPU
3:15–3:40PM MDT
Rufus Neame (Univ. Cambridge), Paul Cosgrove (Univ. Cambridge), John Tramm (ANL)
Paper
Correcting k-eff-Normalisation-Induced Bias in the Time-Dependent Random Ray Method
3:40–4:05PM MDT
Maximilian Kraus (Univ. Cambridge), Paul Cosgrove (Univ. Cambridge), John Tramm (ANL), Eugene Shwageraus (Univ. Cambridge)
Coupled 1D Neutronics and Thermal-Hydraulics Modelling with the Random Ray Method
4:05–4:30PM MDT
Lucy Bland (Univ. Cambridge), Paul Cosgrove (Univ. Cambridge)
Randomized Quasi-Monte Carlo Sampling in the Random Ray Method for Neutron Transport Simulations
4:30–4:55PM MDT
Samuel Pasmann (Thea Energy), John Tramm (ANL)