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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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The transformation of the NRC: 50 years of commissioners
The dust is beginning to settle following the whirlwind of changes at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission over the past year, and 2025 ultimately may be viewed as a transformative year, as well as the year the NRC celebrated its golden anniversary. The 12 months of that milestone year brought more change to the agency in its composition, its mandate, and its relationship to the executive branch than any comparable period in the preceding four decades.
Now at 51 years and counting, the NRC is working with a full commission and issuing new rulemakings to both regulate and support the next round of nuclear deployments. With the turbulence of 2025 still fresh in our minds, Nuclear News decided it was a good time to revisit the professional backgrounds of all 42 NRC commissioners who have served over the agency’s 50-year history to see how the composition of the commission has evolved over time.
Technical Session|Poster Sessions
Friday, April 5, 2024|10:30AM–12:30PM EDT|Hub Robeson Center -- Alumni Hall
Session Chair:
Daniel R. Holcomb (Penn State University)
Session Organizer:
Jonathan B. Balog (Penn State University)
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Core Loading and Analysis for a Westinghouse 2-Loop PWR
10:30–10:31AM EDT
Ethan Kunz (Penn State University), Katherine L. Baker (Penn State University), Saeed Althehli (Penn State University)
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Thermal Power Uprate Fuel Management Studies for a Westinghouse 4-Loop PWR
10:31–10:32AM EDT
William Graham (NCSU), Jacob Mast (NCSU), Aaliyah Zuniga (NCSU)
Analysis of Lithium-7 and Boron Nitride Moderated Space Thermal Nuclear Reactor
10:32–10:33AM EDT
Naveen Talla (Horace Greeley High School), Viorel Costeanu (Mizuho Securities USA)
Design of Self-Cooled Lithium-Lead Fusion Blanket and Analysis of Tritium Breeding Performance with PHITS
10:33–10:34AM EDT
Angel P. Carreras (Univ. California, Berkeley), Benjamin J. Li (Univ. California, Berkeley), Claire E. Garlington (Univ. California, Berkeley), Jack F. Kirkwood (Univ. California, Berkeley), Max Monange (EX-Fusion)
Design of Experimental Systems, Framing Implements, and Other Components Within the Ion-Gas-Neutral Interactions with Surfaces - 2 (IGNIS-2) System
10:34–10:35AM EDT
Aidan Judge (Penn State)
Radiochemistry Education and Demand
10:35–10:36AM EDT
Shams Al Azzawi (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Jessika V. Rojas (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Nuclear Is Clean Energy Club Advocacy
10:36–10:37AM EDT
Joy R. Larson (Univ. California, Berkeley), Krisha Nair (Univ. California, Berkeley), Joshua Paiz (Univ. California, Berkeley), Donny Szeghy (Univ. California, Berkeley)
The Dependence of Plasma Exposure Conditions on Hydrogen Retention in Dispersion-Strengthened Tungsten Materials
10:37–10:38AM EDT
Carli S. Smith (Penn State), Rob Kolasinski (Sandia), Xing Wang (Penn State), Yuzuka Hoshino (Shizuoka University), Martin N. Nieto (Penn State), Alexandru H. Marin (Penn State)
Summary of Preservation of Records, Knowledge, and Memory Across Generations
10:38–10:39AM EDT
Ollie G. Reed (Oregon State)
SCRAM Deployment: Scatterable Radiation Monitoring
10:39–10:40AM EDT
Sebastian W. English (U.S. Military Academy), David Fobar (Defense Threat Reduction Agency (NSERC))
Intersections of Tribal Energy Sovereignty and Nuclear Power
10:40–10:41AM EDT
Riley J. Fisher (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Samuel G. Dotson (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Madicken Munk (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Approaches for Improved Efficiency in Neutron Irradiation Based Isotope Production
10:41–10:42AM EDT
Melis Yildiz Sakarya (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Jessika V. Rojas (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Supathon Phongikaroon (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Inverse Design of an Immersion Microwave Cavity Flow Meter for High Temperature Advanced Fluid Reactors
10:42–10:43AM EDT
India J. Allan (NCSU), Andrew S. Fetch (NCSU), Alexander Heifetz (ANL), Ge Yang (NCSU)
Large Eddy Simulation of Impinging Parallel Round Jets Past a Circular Cylinder
10:43–10:44AM EDT
John J. Acierno (Penn State), Elia Merzari (Penn State)
Neutronics Benchmark Development of the ALFRED Alike Reactor Using MCNP Code
10:44–10:45AM EDT
Lucas Diehl (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Distinguishing Molten Salt Reactor Fuel Fissile Nuclides Using Fission Product Ratios
10:45–11:05AM EDT
Gabriela Gariazzo (Metea Valley High School), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Simulations of Prompt-Gamma Response to Epithermal-Neutron Activation for Nuclear Forensics
11:05–11:06AM EDT
Brad Nethercutt (Penn State), Daniel R. Holcomb (Penn State), Marek Flaska (Penn State)
Additive Manufacturing and Characterization of Scintillating Radiation Detectors
11:06–11:07AM EDT
Andrzej J. Korlacki (U.S. Naval Academy), Peter Joyce (U.S. Naval Academy), Joseph Latta (U.S. Naval Academy)