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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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Bills look to boost domestic uranium enrichment, move past Yucca Mountain
A pair of bills were introduced earlier this month in Congress that could modernize the licensing process for uranium enrichment facilities and repeal the law that designated Yucca Mountain in Nevada as the country’s nuclear waste repository.
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fundamental Irradiation Damage
Thursday, December 14, 2023|3:10–4:50PM CST|Galerie 6
Session Chair:
Anne A. Campbell (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Flyura Djurabekova (Univ. Helsinki)
Track Organizers:
Steve Zinkle (University of Tennessee & Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Mitra Taheri (Johns Hopkins University)
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Kinetics and Stability of Nano-Scale Precipitates in Fe-Based Alloys During Ion Irradiations
3:10–3:50PM CST
Yajie Zhao (ORNL), Pengcheng Zhu (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Jonathan Poplawsky (ORNL), Arunodaya Bhattacharya (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), Steven Zinkle (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Presented by Siwei Chen (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Paper
Impact of Micro-Alloying and Precipitation in Ion-Irradiated Nickel: From the Inhibition of Point-Defect Cluster Diffusion by Thermal Segregation to the Change of Dislocation Loop Nature
3:50–4:10PM CST
M. Loyer-Prost (CEA), K. Ma (CEA), B. Décamps (Univ. Paris-Saclay), L. Huang (CEA), M. Nastar (CEA), R.E. Schäublin (ETH Zurich), J.F. Löffler (ETH Zurich), A. Fraczkiewicz (CNRS), M.A. Belghoul (CEA), P. Vermaut (CNRS), F. Prima (CNRS)
Beryllium Carbide Tolerance to Radiation Damage for Advanced Reactor Moderators
4:10–4:30PM CST
Diego A. Muzquiz (Univ. Michigan), Stephen S. Raiman (Univ. Michigan)
Temperature Dependent Evolution of Microstructure in Fe10Cr Alloy Under Proton Irradiation
4:30–4:50PM CST
Siwei Chen (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Yajie Zhao (ORNL), Yao Li (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Qinyun Chen (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Steven J. Zinkle (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)