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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 Nuclear Fuel Cycles
Wednesday, December 13, 2023|10:00–11:40AM CST|Galerie 6
Session Chair:
Adam Burak (Univ. Michigan)
Alternate Chair:
Sarah C. Finkeldei (Univ. California, Irvine)
Track Organizers:
Jie Lian (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Yong Yang (Univ. Florida)
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High Temperature Structures, Oxidation, and Thermodynamics of Uranium Nitride and Uranium Carbide
10:00–10:40AM CST
Xiaofeng Guo (Washington State), Vitaliy Goncharov (Washington State), Juejing Liu (Washington State), Arjen van Veelen (LANL), Emma Carlsen (Washington State), Sam Karcher (Washington State), John McCloy (Washington State), Hongwu Xu (LANL), Joshua White (LANL)
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Irradiation-Enhanced Diffusion in Advanced Ceramic Nuclear Fuels
10:40–11:20AM CST
M.W.D. Cooper (LANL), A. Schneider (LANL), C. Matthews (LANL), V. Kocevski (LANL), J. Rizk (LANL), D.A. Andersson (LANL)
Contact Angle of Molten Fluoride Salts on Graphite: A Parametric Study
11:20–11:40AM CST
L. Vergari (Univ. California, Berkeley), Z. Falkowski (Univ. California, Berkeley), M. Dennis (Univ. California, Berkeley), R. O. Scarlat (Univ. California, Berkeley)
