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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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Front-end nuclear fuel supply cooperation: Turning allied interdependence into strategic advantage
The global nuclear revival, which is fueled by unprecedented demand for firm, affordable, dispatchable power for artificial intelligence and data center build-out, energy security imperatives, and climate commitments, has exposed a structural reality of the Western fuel cycle: No single allied nation currently possesses the full suite of front-end capabilities. From mining through conversion, enrichment, fabrication, and the emerging deconversion and metallization steps required for reactor fuels, capability is distributed across Canada, France, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States (collectively, the “Sapporo Five”), as well as a small group of close partners.
Technical Session|Methods
Monday, April 22, 2024|1:30–3:15PM PDT|Continental Ballroom 2
Session Chair:
Jaako Leppanen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)
Alternate Chair:
Paolo Vinai (Chalmers Univ. Technology)
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Hobbes: Multigroup Cross Section Generation for Mixed-Architecture Computing Environments
1:30–1:50PM PDT
S.J. Douglass (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
Paper
Understanding the Macroscopic Cross Section Treatment in Hybrid Continuous Energy and Multigroup Depletion Using the Shift Monte Carlo Code
1:50–2:10PM PDT
Vidor Lujan (Georgia Tech), Bailey Painter (Georgia Tech), Inhyung Kim (Univ. California, Berkeley), Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. California, Berkeley), Thomas M. Evans (ORNL), Tara M. Pandya (ORNL), Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Tech)
Derivation of the History Variable Calculation for Macro-Depletion in Nodal Simulators
2:10–2:30PM PDT
Thomas Folk (Univ. Michigan), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. Michigan)
Initial Assessment of Online Cross Section Generation Capability of Griffin for Gas-Cooled Pebble-Bed Reactor
2:30–2:50PM PDT
Hansol Park (ANL), Yeon Sang Jung (ANL), Changho Lee (ANL), Yaqi Wang (INL), Javier Ortensi (INL)
Application of Expanded Transfer Functions for Predicting Coarse Mesh, One-Group Macroscopic Cross Sections in a 3D Realistic PWR Core
2:50–3:10PM PDT
Bailey Painter (Georgia Tech), Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Tech)