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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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DOE approves Xcimer’s laser fusion power plant design
The Department of Energy has approved Xcimer Energy's Athena fusion power plant preconceptual technical design. With this milestone achieved, the Denver, Colo.-based company is now moving forward with its plans to develop economical laser inertial confinement fusion using two beamlines, gas laser technology, and a molten salt fusion chamber.
The National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory demonstrated net energy gain from inertial confinement fusion in 2022 using solid-state glass lasers and 192 beamlines.
General Chair:
Jason Jeffries (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Program Chair:
Kiel Holliday (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Local Organizing Committee:
Jason Jeffries (LLNL)
Kiel Holliday (LLNL)
Tien Roehling (LLNL)
Emily Moore (LLNL)
Program Committee:
Thomas Albrecht-Schoenzart (Col. School of Mines)
Allen Dalton (NNSA/HQ)
Dallas Reilly (PNNL)
Gauthier Deblonde (LLNL)
Paul Roussel (AWE)
Scott Donald (LLNL)
Tarik Saleh (LANL)
Krzysztof Gofryk (INL)
Moritz Schmidt (HZDR)
Matthew Higginson (AWE)
David Shuh (LBNL)
Amy Hixon (Notre Dame)
Vijay Varsani (AWE)
Nina Huittinen (Univ. of Berlin)
Richard Wilson (ANL)
Rudy Konings (JRC)
Ping Yang (LANL)
Alexander Landa (LLNL)
Mavrik Zavarin (LLNL)
Boris Maiorov (LANL)
International Advisory Committee:
Scott Bazley (AWE)
Yoshinori Haga (JAEA)
Herve Bernard (CEA)
Ladislav Havela (Charles Univ., Prague)
Kerri Blobaum (LLNL)
Siegfried Hecker (Stanford Univ.)
Roberto Caciuffo (JRC)
Gerry Lander (ILL)
Herve Chollet (CEA)
Scott McCall (LLNL)
David Clark (LANL)
Sarah Nelson (NNSA/HQ)
Rodney Ewing (Stanford Univ.)
Alistair Parkes (AWE)
Thomas Fanghanel (JRC)
Franz Freibert (LANL)
Gerrit van der Laan (Diamon Light Source)
Philippe Gilbaud (CEA)
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