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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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Deployable Energy achieves criticality at INL
Ahead of the July 4 deadline set by President Trump in Executive Order 14301, the nuclear community has been following the developments of the Department of Energy’s Reactor Pilot Program, in which companies have been pursuing DOE authorization to build and test their first-of-a-kind nuclear technologies. The EO set an ambitious goal of three reactors achieving criticality by July 4, 2026.
Technical Session
Saturday, April 10, 2021|2:00–3:30PM EDT
Session Chair:
Jake Mitstifer (Univ. of Ill., Urbana-Champaign)
Alternate Chair:
Ishita Trivedi
Session Organizer:
Edward Chen (NC State Univ.)
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Session Producers:
Ni Kan (NC State Univ.)
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Design of a Critical Benchmark Experiment for the Intermediate Energy Pu-239 Fission Cross Section
Ralph Arel B. D'Agostino (North Carolina State University), William A. Garrabrant (North Carolina State University), Carena G. Kelly (South Carolina State University), John Mattingly (North Carolina State University)
Paper
Optimization of the Rossi-Alpha Histogram for Bin Width and Reset Time
Rowan Marchie (University of Michigan), Michael Hua (University of Michigan), Sara A. Pozzi (University of Michigan)
Assessing the Application of Distributed Ledger Technology to the Development of the Next Generation of Nuclear Power Plants
Priyanka M. Pandit (North Carolina State University), Vibhav Srivaths (North Carolina State University), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (North Carolina State University)
