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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|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)