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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|3:15–4:55PM MDT|Sweeney B
Session Chair:
Mikaela Blood (Lockheed Martin)
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RANS-CFD Simulation of Cryogenic Tank Depressurization by Jet Induced Mixing
3:15–3:40PM MDT
Eymon Lan (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Shanbin Shi (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Paper
Tolerance Stacks in the Methods, Solvers and User Applications of Analytical Techniques for Small Reactors
3:40–4:05PM MDT
Herschel P. Smith (BWX Technologies, Inc.)
Monte Carlo-Based Shield Mass Modeling for a Reference NEP Reactor
4:05–4:30PM MDT
Alexander Foutch (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Reed Herner (Analytical Mechanics Assoc.), Corey Smith (Analytical Mechanics Assoc.)
