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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Faster fusion with AI?
The article “Finding the shadows in a fusion system faster with AI,” published by the Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, details the public-private partnership among PPPL, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The partnership has led to a new artificial intelligence approach that is faster at finding what’s known as “magnetic shadows” in a fusion vessel: “safe havens protected from the intense heat of the plasma.”
Technical Session
Thursday, May 19, 2022|10:15AM–12:00PM EDT|Pointview
Session Chair:
Dan Kotlyar
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Vedant Mehta
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Demonstration of MCNP and Abaqus Based Reactor Multiphysics (MARM) M&S Framework for Space Nuclear Systems
Vedant K. Mehta (LANL)
Paper
Methodology and Preliminary Results for the Transient Control of Pressure and Temperature for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Engines
Vigneshwar Manickam (Georgia Tech), Matthew Krecicki (Georgia Tech), Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Tech)
Thermo-Mechanics Feedback for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Analysis: Implementation and Application
Connor Koelsch (Georgia Tech), Sam Heflin (Georgia Tech), Matt Krecicki (Georgia Tech), Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Tech)
Suppressing the Positive Temperature Reactivity Coefficient in Metal Hydride Moderated Reactor
Vedant K. Mehta (LANL), Dasari V. Rao (LANL)
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