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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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Nuclear is ready now
Michael Goff
I don’t think we’ve ever had a busier year in the Office of Nuclear Energy, and it’s probably been decades since we’ve had this much momentum within the overall U.S. nuclear industry.
President Trump and Energy Secretary Wright have made very clear the important role that nuclear must play in meeting our energy needs, and that’s well demonstrated by the four executive orders that the president signed [more than] 375 days ago. In nuclear, we’re now talking about days, not years.
Those EOs set a goal for the United States to quadruple the amount of nuclear that we have. We need to go from the 94 reactors that we have operating right now, which generate roughly 100 gigawatts of electricity, to 400 gigawatts by 2050.
Technical Session|Fission Surface Power/Nuclear Electric Propulsion
Wednesday, May 8, 2024|1:00–2:40PM MDT|Sweeney B
Session Chair:
Randy Bell
Alternate Chair:
Andrew Zillmer
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Regulatory Readiness Level (RRL) as a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) Parallel for Gauging Holistic Technology Maturity for Space Nuclear Technology
1:00–1:25PM MDT
Christopher Morrison (Independent Researcher)
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Expanding the Price-Anderson Act (PAA) to Cover Private Sector Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion (SNPP)
1:25–1:50PM MDT
Clarence H. Tolliver (Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman), Sidney L. Fowler (Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman), Jeffrey S. Merrifield (Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman)
Roles of Nuclear Electric Propulsion and Nuclear Thermal Propulsion in Cislunar Space
1:50–2:15PM MDT
Robert Schleicher (General Atomics), Christina Back (General Atomics), Gregory Burgess (General Atomics)
NASA's Interest in Radiation Tolerance and Requirements of Candidate Technologies for Fission Surface Power and Further Relevance to Dynamic Radioisotope Power Systems
2:15–2:40PM MDT
Tyler R. Steiner (NASA Glenn Research Center), Robert J. Bruckner (NASA Glenn Research Center), Scott D. Wilson (NASA Glenn Research Center)
