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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|Emerging Topics
Thursday, October 10, 2024|10:15AM–12:00PM MDT|Room 4
Session Chair:
Simon M. Pimblott (INL)
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Assessment of Cloud-Based Applications for Enabling a Scalable Risk-Informed Predictive Maintenance Strategy
10:15–10:35AM MDT
Cody Walker (INL), Vivek Agarwal (INL)
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Uprating for Clean Hydrogen: Nuclear Energy's Role in Advancing a Hydrogen Economy in the Status Quo
10:35–10:55AM MDT
Levi M. Larsen (INL), Iza G. Lantgios (INL), Ronald L. Gonzales (INL), Eric M. Federline (MPR Assoc.)
Removal and Deactivation of Bond Sodium from Fast Reactor Blanket Materials
10:55–11:15AM MDT
Steven D. Herrmann (INL), Brian D. Preussner (INL), Elmar F. Eidelpes (INL)
Estimation of General Area Dose Rates During Closure Weld Operations on the DOE Standard Canister
11:15–11:35AM MDT
Evans D. Kitcher (INL)
Multiscale Multifidelity Modeling of Thermal Hydraulics Phenomena for Advanced Nuclear Reactors Using MOOSE Open-Source Tools
11:35–11:55AM MDT
M. Tano (INL), P. German (INL), V. Kyriakopoulos (INL), G. Giudicelli (INL), R. Freile (INL), M. Li (INL), V. Coppo Leite (INL), J. Hansel (INL), S. Schunert (INL), A. Lindsay (INL), L. Charlot (INL)