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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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Porous tungsten scrubbed by glow discharge cleaning
Researchers conducted experiments in Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory’s Lithium Tokamak Experiment-Beta (LTX-β) showing glow discharge cleaning can be used to effectively clean samples of porous tungsten—used to hold liquid lithium in fusion machine inner walls—manufactured from powder-reconstituted materials, according to a paper published in Nuclear Materials and Energy.
Tungsten is widely used for plasma-facing components in fusion machines, especially in the divertor region where materials must withstand extreme levels of power flow. According to the paper, spark plasma sintering can be used to make tungsten into spongelike samples for holding liquid lithium.
Technical Session
Thursday, May 19, 2022|10:15AM–12:00PM EDT|Brighton III/IV
Session Chair:
Carlo Fiorina
Alternate Chair:
Alessandro Scolaro (EPFL)
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Development of an OpenFOAM Multiphysics Solver for Solid Fission Products Transport in the Molten Salt Fast Reactor
Andrea Di Ronco (Politecnico di Milano), Stefano Lorenzi (Politecnico di Milano), Francesca Giacobbo (Politecnico di Milano), Carolina Introini (Politecnico di Milano), Antonio Cammi (Politecnico di Milano)
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The GeN-Foam Multiphysics Solver: A Status Update
C. Fiorina (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
PyARC -- A User-Friendly Open-Source Reactor Physics Framework for Fast Reactor Design and Analysis
N.E. Stauff (ANL), A. Abdelhameed (ANL), M. Atz (ANL), P. Shriwise (ANL), Y.S. Jung (ANL), R. Lefebvre (ORNL)
julia for Enhancing Nuclear Engineering Simulations (JENES): Introduction to the JENES Project and Platform
Muhammad Ramzy Altahhan (NCSU), Gregory Delipei (NCSU), David Holler (NCSU), Jason Hou (NCSU), Maria Avramova (NCSU), Kostadin Ivanov (NCSU)