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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Workshop
Thursday, April 8, 2021|11:45AM–1:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Benjamin W. Beeler
Alternate Chair:
Ishita Trivedi
Session Organizer:
Edward Chen (NC State Univ.)
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Session Producers:
Bryant Kanies (NCSU)
Nuclear materials research encompasses fuel, cladding, gap bond, coolant, reactor pressure vessels, divertor, blankets and all other material systems of interest in fission and fusion reactor systems. A number of primary technological challenges facing the nuclear industry are all materials-based, such as extending to longer lifetimes, qualifying new fuel types for advanced reactors, and developing next generation reactor designs. This workshop will introduce participants to the field of computational nuclear materials science, with an overview of atomistic, mesoscale and fuel performance simulation methodologies. Participants will get hands-on training in molecular dynamics simulations on sodium cooled fast reactor metallic nuclear fuel systems utilizing the LAMMPS software package. LAMMPS is a state-of-the-art open source massively parallel molecular dynamics simulation code, that can be executed on a laptop. No prior computational experience is required, only an interest in nuclear materials research and a laptop is needed. Prior to participating in this workshop, please download the files named "InputFiles.zip" here. The extracted files will be used during the workshop in the interactive portion of the session. View the presentation here.
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