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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 Integrated Phenomena in Reactor Materials
Thursday, December 14, 2023|10:00–11:40AM CST|Galerie 5
Session Chair:
Bruce A. Pint (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Stuart A. Maloy (PNNL)
Track Organizers:
Andrew Hoffman (n/a)
Adrian Couet (University of Wisconsin- Madison)
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Impact of Proton Irradiation on Corrosion Behavior of Zircaloy-4 and Zr-1Nb Alloys in Hydrogenated Water: A Post-Irradiation Study
10:00–10:20AM CST
Peng Wang (Univ. Michigan), Gary S. Was (Univ. Michigan)
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In-situ Irradiation and Elastic Stress Effects on Molten Fluoride Salt Corrosion of Structural Alloys
10:20–10:40AM CST
C. Evered (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), M. Tonks (Univ. Florida), K. Sridharan (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), A. Couet (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Molten Chloride Salt Corrosion of Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics
10:40–11:00AM CST
Brian Carpman (Univ. Michigan), James Kelly (Univ. Michigan), Stephen S. Raiman (Univ. Michigan)
Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Novel Nickel-Base Alloys for Molten Salt Reactor Applications
11:00–11:20AM CST
Ryan Thier (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Jaimie Tiley (ORNL), Bruce Pint (ORNL), Ryan Gordon (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Kumar Sridharan (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Soumya Nag (ORNL), Steven Zinkle (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Design of Functionally-Graded Cermet Coatings for Molten Salt Reactors by High Throughput Finite Element Modeling
11:20–11:40AM CST
K. Yan (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), D. Zhao (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), S. Sarkar (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), R.Rahul (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), J. Lian (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
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