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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
Standards Program
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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
Tuesday, September 16, 2025|8:00–9:40AM CDT|Grand Salon AB
Session Chair:
Noah Kleedtke
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Alternate Chair:
Mathieu Dupont
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Validation of Modern Nuclear Data Processing in SCALE
8:00–8:20AM CDT
Jesse M. Brown (ORNL), Travis M. Greene (ORNL), Jordan McDonnell (ORNL), Chris W. Chapman (ORNL), Cihangir Celik (ORNL)
Paper
Neutron Transmission Measurements in Support of the Validation of the ENDF/B-VIII.1 Heavy Paraffinic Oil TSL
8:20–8:40AM CDT
Adam Daskalakis (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Devin Barry (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Michael Rapp (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Brian Epping (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Amelia Trainer (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Michael Zerkle (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Yaron Danon (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Quantification of Integral Benchmark Sensitivities to 1D and 2D Thermal Scattering Cross Sections
8:40–9:00AM CDT
Chris W. Chapman (ORNL), Goran Arbanas (ORNL), Jordan McDonnell (ORNL), Kemal Ramic (ORNL), Iyad Al-Qasir (ORNL)
Temperature-Dependent Benchmark Testing for H2O and D2O Using Experiments Performed with the New IPEN/MB-01 Setup
9:00–9:10AM CDT
Luiz Leal (ORNL), Adimir dos Santos (ORNL), Travis Greene (ORNL), Mathieu Dupont (ORNL), Kemal Remic (ORNL), Jesse Brown (ORNL), Jose Ignacio Marquez Damian (ERIC), Vaibhav Jaiswal (ASNR), Ulysses D'Utra Bitelli (IPEN/CNEN-SP), Mitsuo Yamaguchi (IPEN/CNEN-SP), Hugo Rodrigues Landim (IPEN/CNEN-SP), Fernando de Castro Junqueira (IPEN/CNEN-SP), Gregorio Soares de Sousa (IPEN/CNEN-SP), Michelangelo Durazzo (IPEN/CNEN-SP), Elita Urano (IPEN/CNEN-SP)
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