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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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A busy week in Utah for nuclear development
Almost every day this week has featured headlines concerning announcements, signings, and progress across Utah’s nuclear sector.
At a glance: TerraPower, Flagship, and the state signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate on siting a Natrium reactor; $5 million may come to Camp Williams for General Matter–related site preparation work; and Nusano cut the ribbon on a radioisotope production facility.
Technical Session|Reactor Design and Analysis
Tuesday, April 23, 2024|10:15AM–12:00PM PDT|Franciscan B
Session Chair:
Ugur Mertyurek (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Eva E. Davidson
Session Organizer:
Brendan Kochunas (Univ. Michigan)
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Towards 2D Reference Deterministic Calculations in Support of Industrial Model Verification and Advanced Reflector Modeling Setup
10:15–10:35AM PDT
F. Inzirillo (Politecnico di Milano), A. Brighenti (Framatome), A. Cammi (Politecnico di Milano), L. Graziano (Framatome), A. Hebert (Polytechnique Montréal), G. Marleau (Polytechnique Montréal), S. Santandrea (CEA), B. Vezzoni (Framatome)
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New Thermal and Leakage Synthetic Algorithms Applied to Best Estimate Schemes in Lattice Calculations
10:35–10:55AM PDT
A. Brighenti (Framatome), S. Santandrea (CEA), L. Graziano (Framatome), B. Vezzoni (Framatome)
Enhancing PWR Monte Carlo Simulations with GREAPMC: A GPU-Accelerated Approach
10:55–11:15AM PDT
Muhammad Rizwan Ali (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), Murat Serdar Aygul (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), Deokjung Lee (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology)
Enrichment Interpolation for High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium Fuel Macroscopic Cross Section for Polaris/PARCS
11:15–11:35AM PDT
Junsu Kang (Univ. Michigan), Andrew M. Ward (Univ. Michigan), Ugur Mertyurek (ORNL), Thomas J. Downar (Univ. Michigan)
Core Physics Characteristics of Extended Enrichment and Higher Burnup Boiling Water Reactor Fuel
11:35–11:55AM PDT
Ugur Mertyurek (ORNL), Riley Cumberland (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
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