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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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The deadline arrives: Checking in on the Reactor Pilot Program
On May 23, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14301, “Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the DOE,” which instructed the Department of Energy to create a Reactor Pilot Program (RPP)—a new system in which companies could pursue DOE authorization to build and test their first-of-a-kind nuclear technologies. EO 14301 set an ambitious goal for that program: three reactors achieving criticality by July 4, 2026.
Technical Session|Panel|Panel Sessions|Computational Thermal Hydraulics
Thursday, August 24, 2023|9:00–10:20AM EDT|Columbia 5-8
Session Chair:
Elia Merzari (Penn State)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Igor A. Bolotnov
High-performance computing has played a crucial role throughout the history of nuclear engineering. Significant investments have led to the development of exascale computers, with ORNL's Frontier coming online last year. In this panel, we discuss the latest trends in computing and software to take advantage of this unprecedented computing power. We also discuss the impact and best use of high-fidelity simulations to advance nuclear reactor thermal-hydraulics.
Chai Koren
EdF
Paul Fischer
Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Yuta Hasegawa
Japan Atomic Energy Agency
Ed Komen
NRG Petten