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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Powering the future: How the DOE is fueling nuclear fuel cycle research and development
As global interest in nuclear energy surges, the United States must remain at the forefront of research and development to ensure national energy security, advance nuclear technologies, and promote international cooperation on safety and nonproliferation. A crucial step in achieving this is analyzing how funding and resources are allocated to better understand how to direct future research and development. The Department of Energy has spearheaded this effort by funding hundreds of research projects across the country through the Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP). This initiative has empowered dozens of universities to collaborate toward a nuclear-friendly future.
Workshop
Thursday, April 8, 2021|4:00–6:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Jason Hou
Alternate Chair:
Alexander W. Bataller
Session Organizer:
Edward Chen (NC State Univ.)
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Session Producers:
Yuqiao Joy Fan (NCSU)
Our increasing need for safe, abundant, reliable, and carbon-free energy sources is stimulating renewed interest for employing nuclear energy to power our world. New materials and technologies that can address sustainability, cost, and waste issues of current water-based reactors is critical for realizing a future powered by the atom. Among these concepts is the utilization of molten salts as both the reactor coolant and as a fuel solvent, namely, the molten salt reactor (MSR). This workshop will provide an overview of the MSR concept and current technological challenges facing its development and deployment. On the experimental side, we will compare classical approaches to molten salt characterization with modern-day developments, with an emphasis on laser-based diagnostics. We will discuss the challenges associated with the modeling and simulation (M&S) capabilities, introduce the important physics spaces relevant to various MSR designs, and discuss the tight coupling of single physics modules to enable multi-physics simulation of the core and system.
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