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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Deep Fission raises $30M in financing
Since the Department of Energy kicked off a 10-company race with its Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program to bring test reactors on line by July 4, 2026, the industry has been waiting for new headlines proclaiming progress. Aalo Atomics broke ahead of the pack first by announcing last week that it had broken ground on its 50-MWe Aalo-X at Idaho National Laboratory.
Technical Session
Thursday, May 19, 2022|1:30–3:15PM EDT|Fountainview
Session Chair:
Matias Zilly (Framatome )
Alternate Chair:
Jaakko Leppänen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)
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Load Follow Simulations for the LDR-50 District Heating Reactor Using the Kraken Computational Framework
Jaakko Leppänen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), Ville Valtavirta (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), Rebekka Komu (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)
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Active and Passive Load-Follow Operations in the Soluble-Boron-Free SMR ATOM
Yunseok Jeong (KAIST), Taesuk Oh (KAIST), Nguyen Xuan Ha (KAIST), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
Coupling of the Secondary Loop and the Cooling Circuit in a PWR Involved in Load Follow Operations
Baptiste Gasse (CEA), Jean-Michel Do (CEA), Hubert Grard (CEA), Cheikh Diop (CEA), Sébastien Verel (Univ. Littoral Côte d’Opale)
X2 VVER-1000 Benchmark Fresh Core Analysis with HELIOS / DYN3D
Matias Zilly (Framatome)
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