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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 Nuclear Fuel Cycles
Wednesday, December 13, 2023|8:00–9:40AM CST|Galerie 6
Session Chair:
Stephen T. Lam (Univ. Massachusetts, Lowell)
Alternate Chair:
Sarah C. Finkeldei (Univ. California, Irvine)
Track Organizers:
Jie Lian (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Yong Yang (Univ. Florida)
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Studying Solvation Structure of Metallic Impurities with Machine Learning Molecular Dynamics Enhanced EXAFS
8:00–8:20AM CST
Stephen Lam (Univ. Massachusetts, Lowell), Nicholas Marcella (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Rajni Chahal (ORNL), Anatoly Frenkel (Stony Brook Univ.)
Paper
Determination of Hydrogen and Oxygen Impurities in Chloride Salts via Combustion Analysis
8:20–8:40AM CST
Adam Burak (Univ. Michigan), Brian Carpman (Univ. Michigan), Mohammad Umar Farooq Khan (Univ. Michigan), Vyomini Vakil (Univ. Michigan), Stephen Raiman (Univ. Michigan)
Hold Up of Fuel and Model Fission Products in Fluoride Salts
8:40–9:00AM CST
D.J. Macias (Univ. Michigan), S. Raiman (Univ. Michigan)
Internal Gelation Studies Relevant to Nuclear Fuel: Neodymium Oxide
9:00–9:20AM CST
J. Granger-Jones (Univ. California, Irvine), J. Matthews (Zeno Power), S.C. Finkeldei (Univ. California, Irvine)
Ionic Radii in the Actinide Dioxides
9:20–9:40AM CST
Romain Vauchy (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Shun Hirooka (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Tatsutoshi Murakami (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
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