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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Latest News
Fusion office bill introduced in line with DOE reorganization plan
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Padilla
Sens. Alex Padilla (D., Calif.) and John Cornyn (R., Texas) have introduced bipartisan legislation to formally establish the Office of Fusion at the Department of Energy. This move seeks to codify one of the many changes put forward by the recent internal reorganization plan for offices at the DOE.
Companion legislation has been introduced in the House of Representatives by Reps. Don Beyer (D., Va.) and Jay Obernolte (R., Calif.), who are cochairs of the House Fusion Energy Caucus.
Details: According to Obernolte, “Congress must provide clear direction and a coordinated federal strategy to move fusion from the lab to the grid, and this legislation does exactly that.”
Technical Session|Sponsored by Advanced/Novel Materials
Monday, December 11, 2023|9:30–11:30AM CST|Galerie 5
Session Chair:
William F. Cureton (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Janelle P. Wharry (Purdue Univeristy)
Track Organizers:
Kevin Field (Univ. Michigan)
Grace Burke (INL)
Benjamin Sutton (Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI))
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Internal Restructuring of TRISO Fuel Layers During Irradiation
9:30–9:50AM CST
T.J. Gerczak (ORNL), G.W. Helmreich (ORNL), C. Griesbach (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), D. Schappel (ORNL), J.D. Arregui-Mena (ORNL), R. Thevamaran (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), J.D. Hunn (ORNL)
Paper
Modeling of TRISO Coating Layer Fracture due to Buffer Debonding
9:50–10:10AM CST
Wen Jiang (NCSU), William F. Skerjanc (INL)
Micro-Mechanical Response of SiC-OPyC Layers in TRISO Fuel Particles
10:10–10:30AM CST
Katherine Montoya (ORNL), Erik Herbert (ORNL), Danny Schappel (ORNL), Tyler Gerczak (ORNL), Christian Petrie (ORNL), Andrew Nelson (ORNL)
Thermomechanical Evaluation of Fracture Methods on TRISO Fuel Behavior
10:30–10:50AM CST
R.T. Sweet (INL), G. Singh (INL), J.A. Hirschhorn (INL), W. Jiang (INL)
Finite-Element-Based Thermomechanical Property Correlations for TRISO Fuels
10:50–11:10AM CST
Sam Heflin (LANL), Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Tech), Vedant Mehta (LANL), Holly Trellue (LANL)
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Anisotropy of Pyrocarbon Layers in Irradiated TRISO Fuel
11:10–11:30AM CST
W.F. Cureton (ORNL), T.J. Gerczak (ORNL), G.W. Helmreich (ORNL), D.J. Skitt (ORNL), J.D. Hunn (ORNL)
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