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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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NN Asks: Is the U.S. ready for nuclear construction to accelerate?
Craig Stover
Yes, but . . .
The United States is better positioned today for nuclear construction than it has been in decades. Some of that comes from the experience gained at Vogtle and V.C. Summer. I was part of the team that helped start the V.C. Summer project in 2008, and at that time we were trying to build a nuclear construction workforce from scratch. We learned a lot through that effort, and many of those lessons learned have since been studied, documented, and shared.
The nuclear industry is also benefiting from the wave of investment that started growing around 2020. Over the last five or six years, there has been a serious effort across the country to get ready for new nuclear builds. The U.S. government and the private sector are investing billions of dollars in new nuclear. Much of that work is happening before widespread commercial deployment contracts are signed. This is real, and we need to prepare.
Technical Session|Special Topics
Tuesday, August 22, 2023|10:45AM–12:25PM EDT|Dupont
Session Chair:
Ferry Roelofs
Alternate Chair:
Shuichiro Miwa
Session Organizer:
Caleb S. Brooks
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Development of an Anisotropic Pressure Fluctuation Model for the Prediction of Turbulence-Induced Vibrations of Fuel Rods
10:45–11:05AM EDT
K. Zwijsen (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group), N. van den Bos (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group), E.M.A. Frederix (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group), F. Roelofs (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group), A.H. van Zuijlen (Delft Univ. Technology)
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Wall-Resolved LES and Low-Reynolds Number URANS Combined to an Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian Approach for Predicting Water Cross-Flow Induced Vibrations of a Single Flexible Tube in a Normal Square Tube Array
11:05–11:25AM EDT
Sofiane Benhamadouche (EDF R&D), William Benguigui (EDF R&D)
Modeling of Flow-Induced Vibrations of a BWR Instrumentation Guide Tube Experiment
11:25–11:45AM EDT
K. Zwijsen (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group), S. Tajfirooz (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group), F. Roelofs (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group), A. Papukchiev (GRS), N. Edh (Vattenfall), E. Lillberg (Vattenfall)
URANS and Hybrid URANS/LES Coupled Fluid-Structure Simulations of Fluid-Induced Vibrations in a Square-Pitch Tube Bundle Subjected to Water Cross-Flows
11:45AM–12:05PM EDT
Daniele Vivaldi (IRSN), Jean Baccou (IRSN)
