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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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MIT Maritime Consortium wins ABS approval
Maritime classification and certification organization the American Bureau of Shipping has granted its approval in principle (AIP) for the integration of a nuclear reactor into a cargo vessel propulsion system, as developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Maritime Consortium. This is the first AIP to be granted to a technology developed through the consortium, which includes founding members MIT, HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering, and Capital Maritime Group.
Technical Session|Special Topics
Wednesday, August 23, 2023|9:00–10:20AM EDT|Columbia 5-8
Session Chair:
Han Bao
Alternate Chair:
Majdi I. Radaideh
Session Organizer:
Kurshad Muftuoglu
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Prediction of Departure from Nucleate Boiling Power Using ANN and PIML Algorithms
9:00–9:20AM EDT
Chaitee Godbole (NCSU), Gregory Delipei (NCSU), Xu Wu (NCSU), Maria Avramova (NCSU), Upendra Rohatgi (Brookhaven)
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Deep Generative Modeling for Augmentation of the Steady-State Void Fraction Dataset in the BFBT Benchmark
9:20–9:40AM EDT
Farah Alsafadi (NCSU), Xu Wu (NCSU)
Data-Driven RANS Turbulence Modeling of Mixed Convection in Reactor Downcomer Geometry
9:40–10:00AM EDT
Arsen S. Iskhakov (NCSU), Cheng-Kai Tai (NCSU), Igor A. Bolotnov (NCSU), Nam T. Dinh (NCSU), Elia Merzari (Penn State)
Data-Driven Augmentation of a Second Order Heat Flux Model to Extend it to Heavy Liquid Metals
10:00–10:20AM EDT
Matilde Fiore (von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics), Lilla Koloszar (von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics), Miguel Alfonso Mendez (von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics), Matthieu Duponcheel (Univ. Catholique de Louvain), Yann Bartosiewicz (Univ. Catholique de Louvain)