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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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LLNL, Ampera partner to develop thorium-based TRISO fuel
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has formed a strategic partnership with Ampera to develop the company’s nuclear fuel concept through a project named THUNDER, for Thorium Unimodal Droplet Ejection for Reactors.
The focus of THUNDER is fabricating TRISO made with kernels of thorium rather than the usual uranium. LLNL and Ampera will evaluate and optimize liquid metal–jetting technology to produce highly uniform, spherical kernels of thorium-232 for later processing into TRISO fuel.
Technical Session|Lightning Talks
Wednesday, October 9, 2024|1:00–2:45PM MDT|Room 5
Session Chair:
Ling Zou (ANL)
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Accelerating Advanced Nuclear Reactor Development Through the NRIC Test Beds
1:00–1:07PM MDT
Troy Burnett (INL), Philip Schoonover (INL)
Presented by Marvin W. Fielding (INL)
Paper
Utilizing NRIC Test Beds -- FEEED/User Guide
1:07–1:14PM MDT
Marvin W. Fielding (INL), Troy Pearson Burnett (INL)
National Reactor Innovation Center -- Laboratory for Operations and Testing in the United States and Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment
1:14–1:21PM MDT
James A. King (INL), Jacob S. Rymer (INL)
BWX Technology's Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program Work at Idaho National Laboratory
1:21–1:28PM MDT
Sam Reiss (INL)
National Reactor Innovation Center Advanced Construction Technology Program
1:28–1:35PM MDT
Luke Voss (INL)
Framework for Analyzing Nuclear Supply Chain Dynamics and Advanced Reactor Deployment
1:35–1:42PM MDT
Jia Zhou (ANL), Scott Richards (ANL), Matthew Riddle (ANL), Neal Mann (ANL), Nicolas Stauff (ANL)
INL Support of the X-energy Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program
1:42–1:49PM MDT
Providing Experimental Infrastructure for Accelerating Advanced Reactor Demonstrations Through the National Reactor Innovation Center
1:49–1:56PM MDT
Gregory M. Core (INL)
Presented by Thomas Folk (INL)
Innovating Nuclear Through Legacy Documents
1:56–2:03PM MDT
Holly J. Powell (Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear), Christopher A. Kowalczyk (INL), Jonathan D. Grams (Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear)
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees)
Variable-Curvature Helical Coil and Coil Bundles Arranged in Longitudinal Staggered Arrangement -- A New Method to Enhance H&MT in Tube-Side and Shell-Side of SGs
2:03–2:10PM MDT
Nailiang Zhuang (Nanjing Univ. Aeronautics and Astronautics), Hangbin Zhao (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology), Xiaobin Tang (Nanjing Univ. Aeronautics and Astronautics)
Oklo's Fuel Fabrication and Reactor Demonstration at Idaho National Laboratory
2:10–2:17PM MDT
Reaching Net-Zero Through Nuclear: Idaho National Laboratory's Initiatives to Demonstrate and Deploy Nuclear Energy Options
2:17–2:24PM MDT
Jhansi Kandasamy (INL), Elizabeth Brunner (INL)
Economic and Practical Advantages of Transportable Floating Nuclear Reactors
2:24–2:31PM MDT
A. Horwood (Univ. South Carolina), S. Bays (INL), T. Knight (Univ. South Carolina)
