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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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Launching into tomorrow: NRIC guides new era of research and deployment
In June 2025, the Department of Energy announced the Reactor Pilot Program, an authorization pathway that allowed reactor developers to partner with the DOE to get first-of-a-kind (FOAK) reactors built and tested. Soon after, the DOE rolled out a complementary Fuel Line Pilot Program, which aimed to fast-track fuel projects. In all, 20 projects were accepted into the new programs.
Technical Session|Methods
Wednesday, April 24, 2024|10:15AM–12:00PM PDT|Continental Ballroom 1
Session Chair:
Tomoaki Watanabe (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Alternate Chair:
Anselmo T. Cisneros (TerraPower)
Session Organizer:
Go Chiba (Hokkaido University)
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Validation of ENDF/B-VIII.0 Cross-Section Library for METAL-FAST Graphite Systems
10:15–10:35AM PDT
Paul Vollrath (Georgia Tech), Farzad Rahnema (Georgia Tech), Alex Shaw (ORNL)
Paper
Investigation of the Impact of TSL Data Libraries and Geometry Variations on the MSRE Benchmark
10:35–10:55AM PDT
Aidana Bauyrzhan (NCSU), Ayman I. Hawari (NCSU)
Assessing Criticality Implications of Small Angle Neutron Scattering and Porosity Misrepresentation in ENDF/B-VIII.1 TSLs for Nuclear Graphite
10:55–11:15AM PDT
Kemal Ramic (ORNL), Iyad Al-Qasir (ORNL), Friederike Bostelmann (ORNL), Chris W. Chapman (ORNL), Anne Campbell (ORNL), Kyle Grammer (ORNL), Zain Karriem (ORNL), Jose Ignacio Marquez Damian (European Spallation Source), Mark Baird (ORNL), Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL), Luke Daemen (ORNL), Eric Novak (ORNL), Jesse Brown (ORNL), Goran Arbanas (ORNL), Luiz Leal (ORNL), Germina Ilas (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
Comparison of Coarse Energy Group Structures for Graphite Moderated Molten Salt Reactors and Molten Salt Reactor Experiment Modeling
11:15–11:35AM PDT
J. Faulkner (Georgia Tech), B. Petrovic (Georgia Tech)
Reactivity Impact of Updated 35Cl Nuclear Data on the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment
11:35–11:55AM PDT
T. Cisneros (TerraPower), M. Wargon (TerraPower), K. Hanselman (LANL), T. Kawano (LANL), S.A. Kuvin (LANL), H.Y. Lee (LANL)