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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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The drive to Kairos Power’s reactor demonstration site in Oak Ridge, Tenn., is not only scenic—it’s historic. Nearly 85 years ago, roughly 30,000 construction workers transformed orchards and farmland into a key Manhattan Project site. Depending on your route, you may pass by one of the three gatehouses that were once military checkpoints controlling access to Atomic Energy Commission production facilities.
Technical Session|Methods
Monday, April 22, 2024|10:15AM–12:00PM PDT|Continental Ballroom 2
Session Chair:
David Griesheimer (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
Alternate Chair:
Valeria Raffuzzi (Univ. Cambridge)
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Nemo: A Centralized Model Representation for Reactor Physics Solvers
10:15–10:35AM PDT
P.E. Burke (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), S.J. Douglass (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), D.F. Gill (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), D.P. Griesheimer (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), M.W. Hackemack (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), B.R. Nease (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
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Assessment of Heuristics for the Automated Generation of 2D Method of Characteristics Mesh
10:35–10:55AM PDT
Kyle Vaughn (Univ. Michigan), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. Michigan)
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees)
Geometric Acceleration Structures to Speed Up Cell Searches in OpenMC
10:55–11:15AM PDT
Saad Amin (Mission San Jose High School), Gavin Ridley (MIT), Benoit Forget (MIT)
A Recursive Subdivision Algorithm for Delta-Tracking on Bezier Curve Geometries in SCONE
11:15–11:35AM PDT
Jamie K. Edwards (Univ. Cambridge), Andrew Davis (UKAEA), Eugene Shwageraus (Univ. Cambridge)
A Delta-Tracking Method that Supports Finite-Element Material Properties in Mesh-Based Monte Carlo Codes
11:35–11:55AM PDT
Pablo A. Vaquer (LANL), Michael E. Rising (LANL), Joel A. Kulesza (LANL), Colin A. Weaver (LANL), Colin J. Josey (LANL)