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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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Porous tungsten scrubbed by glow discharge cleaning
Researchers conducted experiments in Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory’s Lithium Tokamak Experiment-Beta (LTX-β) showing glow discharge cleaning can be used to effectively clean samples of porous tungsten—used to hold liquid lithium in fusion machine inner walls—manufactured from powder-reconstituted materials, according to a paper published in Nuclear Materials and Energy.
Tungsten is widely used for plasma-facing components in fusion machines, especially in the divertor region where materials must withstand extreme levels of power flow. According to the paper, spark plasma sintering can be used to make tungsten into spongelike samples for holding liquid lithium.
Technical Session|Computational Methods, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning
Friday, April 4, 2025|10:30–11:50AM MDT|Santa Ana AB
Session Chair:
Mekiel Olguin
Alternate Chair:
Liam Pohlmann
Session Organizer:
Ashley Machado
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Development of SAM-OpenModelica Coupled Simulation for Co-Nuclear Concept Modeling
10:30–10:50AM MDT
Yifan Mao (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Travis Mui (ANL), Zhiee Jhia Ooi (ANL)
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Improving Confidence in Computational Methods for Helium Transmutation Calculations
10:50–11:10AM MDT
Alexander Birmingham (Univ. Michigan), Justin Hamil (Univ. Michigan), Kevin G. Field (Univ. Michigan)
Benchmarking Project Peacock Against the ICSBEP Benchmarks and MCNP
11:10–11:30AM MDT
William Madsen (Brigham Young Univ.), William C. Dawn (Studsvik), Charles A. Wemple (Studsvik)
Convolutional Neural Networks Applied to theTemperature Reconstruction of Fuel Rods.
11:30–11:50AM MDT
Luiz C. Aldeia Machado (Penn State), Victor Coppo Leite (INL), Elia Merzari (Penn State), Lise Charlot (INL), Roberto Ponciroli (ANL), Lander Ibarra (ANL), Arthur T. Motta (Penn State)
