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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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MIT Maritime Consortium wins ABS approval
Maritime classification and certification organization the American Bureau of Shipping has granted its approval in principle (AIP) for the integration of a nuclear reactor into a cargo vessel propulsion system, as developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Maritime Consortium. This is the first AIP to be granted to a technology developed through the consortium, which includes founding members MIT, HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering, and Capital Maritime Group.
Technical Session|Sponsored by Nuclear Fuel Cycles
Tuesday, December 12, 2023|3:10–4:50PM CST|Galerie 6
Session Chair:
Denia Djokic (Univ. Michigan)
Alternate Chair:
Jie Lian (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Track Organizers:
Sarah Finkeldi (Univ. California, Irvine)
Yong Yang (Univ. Florida)
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Opportunities of Advanced Reactor Systems to Support Nuclear Fuel Cycle Development Options
3:10–3:50PM CST
Patricia Paviet (PNNL)
Paper
Thermophysical Properties of Actinide-Containing Molten Salts
3:50–4:10PM CST
D. Nathanael Gardner (Univ. California, Berkeley), Maximilien Denis (Univ. California, Berkeley), Randall Chiu (Univ. California, Berkeley), Raluca O. Scarlat (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Thermodynamic Assessment of Fourteen Pseudo-Ternary Reciprocal Salt Systems Relevant to Molten Salt Reactors
4:10–4:30PM CST
Clara Dixon (Univ. South Carolina), Mina Aziziha (Univ. South Carolina), Juliano Schorne-Pinto (Univ. South Carolina), Jorge Paz Soldan Palma (Univ. South Carolina), Theodore Besmann (Univ. South Carolina)
Turing Instability in the Solid State: Void Lattices in Irradiated Metals
4:30–4:50PM CST
M.W. Noble (Oxford Univ.), M.R. Tonks (Univ. Florida), S.P. Fitzgerald (Univ. Leeds)
