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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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The deadline arrives: Checking in on the Reactor Pilot Program
On May 23, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14301, “Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the DOE,” which instructed the Department of Energy to create a Reactor Pilot Program (RPP)—a new system in which companies could pursue DOE authorization to build and test their first-of-a-kind nuclear technologies. EO 14301 set an ambitious goal for that program: three reactors achieving criticality by July 4, 2026.
Technical Session|Metallurgy and Materials Science
Thursday, September 12, 2024|11:00AM–12:30PM EDT|Gold Ballroom
Session Chair:
Benoit Oudot
Alternate Chair:
Jason R. Jeffries
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Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility (SRPPF): Overview and Context
11:00–11:30AM EDT
Timothy Brown (Savannah River Site)
Paper
Natural Recovery in Delta Plutonium Alloys
11:30–11:50AM EDT
Clarissa A. Yablinsky (LANL), Tomas A. Martinez (LANL), Todd P. Martinez (LANL), Zachary S. Levin (LANL)
Evaluation of Mechanically Induced δ to αʹ Phase Transformation in Pu-Ga Alloy
11:50AM–12:10PM EDT
Jacqueline I. Royer (PNNL), Matthew T. Athon (PNNL), Matthew J. Olszta (PNNL), Dallas D. Reilly (PNNL), Dallin J. Barton (PNNL), Scott H. Swenson (PNNL), Strother J. Cooper (PNNL)
Correlating Microstructure to the Thermal Conductivity of Irradiated U-19Pu-10Zr Fuel
12:10–12:30PM EDT
Allison Probert (Univ. Florida), Ethan Hisle (INL), Mitchell Mika (Univ. Florida), Mary Sevart (Univ. Florida), Matthew Goodson (INL), Rafael Garcia (INL), Luca Capriotti (INL), Cynthia Adkins (INL), Assel Aitkaliyeva (Univ. Florida)
