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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Startup looks to commercialize inertial fusion energy
Another startup hoping to capitalize on progress the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has made in realizing inertial fusion energy has been launched. On August 27, San Francisco–based Inertia Enterprises, a private fusion power start-up, announced the formation of the company with the goal of commercializing fusion energy.
Technical Session|Detection and Analysis
Wednesday, September 11, 2024|11:00AM–12:30PM EDT|Colonial Ballroom
Session Chair:
Tsuyoshi Kohlgruber
Alternate Chair:
Kiel S. Holliday
Session Organizer:
Jason R. Jeffries
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Sensitized 248Cm Circularly Polarized Luminescence Reveals Unique Spectroscopic Signatures
11:00–11:30AM EDT
Appie Peterson (Berkeley Lab), Jospeh A. Adewuyi (Univ. Connecticut), Joshua J. Woods (Berkeley Lab), Rebecca J. Abergel (Berkeley Lab), Gael Ung (Univ. Connecticut)
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Attachment — Cm-248 CPL Presentation
The Curious Case of Pu+: An Inductively Coupled Plasma Tandem Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS/MS) Investigation of the Energy Dependence of Pu+ Reactions with Small Molecules
11:30–11:50AM EDT
Richard M. Cox (PNNL), Kali M. Melby (PNNL), Amanda D. French (PNNL), Michael J. Rodriguez (PNNL), Micah P. Prange (PNNL), Niranjan Govind (PNNL)
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Statistical Lessons for Plutonium Signature Identification and Characterization
11:50AM–12:10PM EDT
Daniel Ries (Sandia), Adah Zhang (Sandia), Madeline Stricklin (LANL), J. Derek Tucker (Sandia)
CE-ICP-MS Investigation of the Gluconate Complexation of Plutonium in Different Oxidation States and of Other Actinides in the Presence of Calcium
12:10–12:30PM EDT
Janik Lohmann (Johannes Gutenberg Univ. Mainz), Tamara Kutyma (Johannes Gutenberg Univ. Mainz), Alexander Wiebe (Johannes Gutenberg Univ. Mainz), Tobias Reich (Johannes Gutenberg Univ. Mainz)
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