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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
Technical Session|Fusion and Plasma Physics
Friday, April 5, 2024|10:15–11:35AM EDT|Leonhard Building Room 102
Session Chair:
Matthew Leoschke (Penn State University)
Alternate Chair:
Chase C. Hargrove (Penn State University)
Session Organizer:
Jonathan B. Balog (Penn State University)
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New Developments and Verification of the Fusion Blanket Simulation Capabilities in the MOOSE Framework
10:15–10:35AM EDT
Trevor Franklin (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Pierre-Clement Simon (INL), Casey T. Icenhour (INL), Paul W. Humrickhouse (ORNL), Fande Kong (Amazon Web Services)
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Optimization of Waste Minimization and Performance in Tokamak Fusion Energy Devices Through the Investigation of Plasma-Facing Materials and Component Design
10:35–10:55AM EDT
Julia L. Marshall (Univ. Michigan), Catherine A. Ballard (Univ. Michigan), Karina Howey (Univ. Michigan)
A Fresh Look at Tritium Breeding in an Inertial Fusion Energy Thick-Liquid-Wall Power Plant Concept
10:55–11:15AM EDT
Owen X. Koster (U.S. Military Academy), Mike Tobin (Xcimer Energy Corporation)
MHD Modeling of Splashing of Beryllium Melt in Tokamak Reactor using OpenFOAM
11:15–11:35AM EDT
Cheng Zhang (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Gennady Miloshevsky (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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