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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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DOE approves Xcimer’s laser fusion power plant design
The Department of Energy has approved Xcimer Energy's Athena fusion power plant preconceptual technical design. With this milestone achieved, the Denver, Colo.-based company is now moving forward with its plans to develop economical laser inertial confinement fusion using two beamlines, gas laser technology, and a molten salt fusion chamber.
The National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory demonstrated net energy gain from inertial confinement fusion in 2022 using solid-state glass lasers and 192 beamlines.
Technical Session|Space Nuclear Propulsion
Wednesday, May 7, 2025|1:00–2:40PM CDT|SPOC B (Space & Rocket Center)
Session Chair:
James Maddox (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
Track Organizer:
Harold Gerrish (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
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NTP Transient Reactor Modeling and Uncertainty Propagation
1:00–1:25PM CDT
Eleni Mowery (AMA), Jacob Stonehill (AMA), Corey Smith (AMA), Matthew Duchek (AMA)
Paper
Decay Heat Correlation Generation Methodology for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Reactors
1:25–1:50PM CDT
Matt Krecicki (BWX Technologies), Herschel Smith (BWX Technologies)
Demonstration of Nodal Diffusion Analysis for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Core Modeling with Varying Thermal-Hydraulic Conditions
1:50–2:15PM CDT
Jake Smith (Georgia Tech), Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Tech)
Systematic Approach for NTP Analysis Using a Consistent Solution Sequence and Reduced-Order Thermal-Hydraulics
2:15–2:40PM CDT
C. Eck (Georgia Tech), D. Kotlyar (Georgia Tech)