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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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Oklo secures DOE PDSA approval
On Thursday, Oklo announced that the Department of Energy’s Idaho Operations Office had approved the preliminary documented safety analysis (PDSA) for the company’s first deployment of its Aurora Powerhouse, which is currently under construction at Idaho National Laboratory.
It is the most recent in a long series of announcements from the 10 companies participating in the Reactor Pilot Program, which has a fast-approaching criticality deadline of July 4.
Technical Session|Experimental Reactor Physics
Monday, April 22, 2024|3:30–5:15PM PDT|Franciscan B
Session Chair:
Jesson D. Hutchinson
Alternate Chair:
Catherine Percher (LLNL)
Session Organizer:
Luka Snoj
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Application of Monte Carlo Solver Solomon to Critical Mass Calculation of Fuel Randomization System
3:30–3:50PM PDT
Tomoaki Watanabe (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Taro Ueki (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Kenya Suyama (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Paper
Statistical Error Estimation of Autocorrelation Method Using Circular Block Bootstrap Method
3:50–4:10PM PDT
Ryoga Hirota (Nagoya Univ.), Tomohiro Endo (Nagoya Univ.), Akio Yamamoto (Nagoya Univ.), Kenichi Watanabe (Kyushu Univ.), Junichi H. Kaneko (Hokkaido Univ.)
Sensitivities of Configurations with Missing Fuel Rods
4:10–4:30PM PDT
Benjamin Dechenaux (IRSN)
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Investigation of Subcriticality Monitoring Method Using Improved Simplest Reactivity Estimator with Bilateral Filter
4:30–4:50PM PDT
Taiyo Moribe (Nagoya Univ.), Tomohiro Endo (Nagoya Univ.), Akio Yamamoto (Nagoya Univ.), Junichi H. Kaneko (Hokkaido Univ.)
Evaluation of Thermal Scattering Law for U3Si2 Using Temperature-Dependent Phonon Density of States
4:50–5:10PM PDT
Junhyoung Gil (NCSU), Ayman I. Hawari (NCSU)