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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|Sponsored by Fuels and Actinide Materials
Monday, December 11, 2023|1:00–2:40PM CST|Galerie 3
Session Chair:
Michael R. Tonks (Univ. Florida)
Track Organizers:
Assel Aitkaliyeva (Univ. Florida)
Jian Gan (INL)
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Multiscale Modeling for the High-Burnup Structure in UO2
1:00–1:40PM CST
S. Biswas (INL), L.K. Aagesen (INL), W. Jiang (INL), M.W.D. Cooper (LANL)
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UO2 MiniFuel Irradiation for High-Burnup Fuel Applications
1:40–2:00PM CST
J.P. Gorton (ORNL), K.M. Godsey (ORNL), A.C. Telles (ORNL), A.G. Le Coq (ORNL), K.D. Linton (ORNL), C.M. Petrie (ORNL), N.A. Capps (ORNL)
UO2 High-Burnup Behavior and Transient Fission Gas Release Modeling
2:00–2:20PM CST
P.-C.A. Simon (INL), L.K. Aagesen (INL), D. Andersson (LANL), S. Biswas (INL), N. Capps (ORNL), M.D.W. Cooper (LANL), W. Jiang (INL), S. Novascone (INL)
Very High Burnup Transient Fission Gas Release: A Sensitivity Study in BISON
2:20–2:40PM CST
Ian Greenquist (ORNL), Nathan Capps (ORNL)
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