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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Startup looks to commercialize inertial fusion energy
Another startup hoping to capitalize on progress the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has made in realizing inertial fusion energy has been launched. On August 27, San Francisco–based Inertia Enterprises, a private fusion power start-up, announced the formation of the company with the goal of commercializing fusion energy.
Technical Session|Fusion and Plasma Physics
Friday, April 4, 2025|1:10–2:30PM MDT|Mirage/Thunderbird
Session Chair:
Shane M. Evans
Alternate Chair:
Jared Justice
Session Organizer:
Ashley Machado
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Computational Fluid Dynamics Solver for Liquid Metal Flow Channel Simulations
1:10–1:30PM MDT
Brandon Partee (Tennessee State), Yuqiao Fan (ORNL)
Paper
Channel Width Analysis for Blanket Design In Fusion Reactors
1:30–1:50PM MDT
Jazzmarya K. Hamilton (Tennessee State), Monica Gehrig (ORNL)
Effects of Gas Feed on Plasma-Liquid Electrolysis for Nitrogen Fixation
1:50–2:10PM MDT
Emily Gillmore (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Brandon Kamiyama (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Ali Eslamisaray (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), R. M. Sankaran (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Low Temperature Plasma Synthesis of Boron Nitride Films on Arbitrary Substrates
2:10–2:30PM MDT
Adam Rousseau (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Mohan Sankaran (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Souvik Bhattacharya (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Matthew Confer (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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