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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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North American construction is back—smaller and faster—at OPG’s Darlington
“The nuclear renaissance is real here,” said Ontario Power Generation’s Subo Sinnathamby on May 8, one year to the day after OPG secured a final investment decision to build the first of four planned BWRX-300 reactors at its Darlington nuclear power plant, and shortly after the new reactor’s foundation was lifted into place. “We got our license to construct in April and our [final investment decision] in May, and we’ve been off to the races since.”
Technical Session|Methods
Wednesday, April 24, 2024|3:30–5:15PM PDT|Franciscan D
Session Chair:
Eugene Shwageraus
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Valeria Raffuzzi
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Particle Tracking in Involute-Based Reactor Geometries in SCONE Monte Carlo Code
3:30–3:50PM PDT
Mikolaj Adam Kowalski (Univ. Cambridge), Congjin Ding (Univ. Cambridge), Eugene Shwageraus (Univ. Cambridge)
Paper
Calculating the Change in Power Shape due to Localised Perturbations to Nuclear Data Using a Generalised Sensitivities Method in MONK
3:50–4:10PM PDT
Andrew J. Cox (ANSWERS Software Service), Richard P. Hiles (ANSWERS Software Service), Simon D. Richards (ANSWERS Software Service), Paul N. Smith (ANSWERS Software Service)
Seismic Deformation of Spacer Grids -- Extension of ARCADIA and Validation of Proposed Neutronic Model
4:10–4:30PM PDT
J. Marten (Framatome), M. Schneider (Framatome), G. Sieber (Framatome), H. Keßler (Framatome)
UO2-Mo Composite Fuel Model Development and Simulation Using the ENIGMA Code
4:30–4:50PM PDT
Aiden Peakman (Univ. Manchester), Glyn Rossiter (National Nuclear Laboratory)