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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 Fuels and Actinide Materials
Wednesday, December 13, 2023|8:00–9:40AM CST|Galerie 3
Session Chair:
Scarlett Widgeon Paisner (LANL)
Alternate Chair:
Assel Aitkaliyeva (Univ. Florida)
Track Organizers:
Jian Gan (INL)
Michael Tonks (Univ. Florida)
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Operational Limitations of Uranium Mononitride
8:00–8:20AM CST
Z.A. Miller (LANL), M. Fratoni (Univ. California, Berkeley), V.K. Mehta (LANL)
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Comparing and Contrasting Properties, Defects and Fission Products in UN and PuN
8:20–8:40AM CST
R.W. Grimes (Imperial College London), C.O.T. Galvin (LANL), N. Kuganathan (Imperial College London)
Assessment of Uranium Nitride Fuel Safety Limits Using Existing Experimental Data
8:40–9:00AM CST
A. Levinsky (LANL), Z. Miller (LANL), V.K. Mehta (LANL), M. Fratoni (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Exploring the Compatibility of UN in Combination with Zr-4 and SiC as Advanced Fuel-Clad Systems
9:00–9:20AM CST
M. Salata-Barnett (Univ. Manchester), J. Buckley (Univ. Manchester), J. Paul (National Nuclear Laboratory), D. Goddard (National Nuclear Laboratory), T. Abram (Univ. Manchester)
Advancements in Uranium Nitride Fuel Performance Modeling in BISON
9:20–9:40AM CST
Christopher Matthews (LANL), Pierre-Clement Simon (INL), Jason Rizk (LANL), Michael W.D. Cooper (LANL), David Andersson (LANL)