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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
Monday, November 8, 2021|12:40–2:40PM EST
Session Chair:
George Apostolakis (Nuc Risk Res Center (Tokyo))
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Fernando Ferrante (EPRI)
Session Producer:
Chase Blaeser
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Risk-Informed Process for Evaluations
12:40–1:10PM EST
Antonios M. Zoulis (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
Paper
Lessons Learned From Surveillance Test Interval Extension of Integrated Safeguards Actuation Test (ISAT) at Sizewell B
1:10–1:40PM EST
Ray Schneider (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Gary Douglas (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Kyle Hope (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Ashlyn Fornear (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Marinos Panayiotou (Corporate Risk Associates), Christopher Sharrock (EDF Energy)
Research Activities Associated With the Treatment of Potential Common-Cause Failures in Event and Condition Assessment
1:40–2:10PM EST
Christopher Hunter (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Ching Ng (US Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Mehdi Reisi Fard (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Zhegang Ma (INL), Sai Zhang (INL)
OECD Nuclear Energy Agency Working Group WGRISK Current Activities -- An Overview
2:10–2:40PM EST
Marina Roewekamp (Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit), Attila Bareith (NUBIKI Nuclear Safety Research Institute), Michelle Gonzalez (U. S. Regulatory Commission Office for Research), Jörg Peschke (Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit)
