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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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DOE issues new NEPA rule and procedures—and accelerates DOME reactor testing
Meeting a deadline set in President Trump’s May 23 executive order “Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the Department of Energy,” the DOE on June 30 updated information on its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) rulemaking and implementation procedures and published on its website an interim final rule that rescinds existing regulations alongside new implementing procedures.
Technical Session|Reactor Design and Analysis
Tuesday, April 23, 2024|3:30–5:15PM PDT|Franciscan A
Session Chair:
Germina Ilas
Alternate Chair:
David Chandler (ORNL)
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Implementation of a Novel ERANOS Procedure for the Adjoint Power Evaluation in Coupled Depletion Problems
3:30–3:50PM PDT
Matteo Stanzani (Univ. Bologna), Donato Maurizio Castelluccio (ENEA), Francesco Lodi (ENEA), Vincenzo Giuseppe Peluso (ENEA), Giacomo Grasso (ENEA), Marco Sumini (Univ. Bologna)
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Reactivity Decrease by Assembling Fuel Assemblies in a Heavy Water-Cooled Reactor
3:50–4:10PM PDT
Tomoatsu Shinohara (Tokyo City Univ.), Naoyuki Takaki (Tokyo City Univ.)
Fuel Cycle Analysis of Wielenga Innovation Static Salt Reactor (WISSR)
4:10–4:30PM PDT
Puran Deng (Univ. Michigan), Won Sik Yang (Univ. Michigan), Thomas Wielenga (Wielenga Innovation Foundation)
Multiphysics Analysis of a Minor Actinide Burning Molten Salt Reactor
4:30–4:50PM PDT
J. Eickman (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), M. Nyberg (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), U. Baker (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), B. Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Dynamics and Stability Analysis Study of a Thermal Molten Salt Reactor
4:50–5:10PM PDT
Thabit Abuqudaira (TAMU), Ümran Üzen (TAMU), Dahvien Dean (TAMU), Pavel Tsvetkov (TAMU), Piyush Sabharwall (INL)
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