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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
Standards Program
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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|Nonproliferation, Security, and Safeguards
Saturday, April 5, 2025|1:40–3:00PM MDT|Gran Quivera 1
Session Chair:
Yuliia Trujillo
Alternate Chair:
Matthew J. Lazaric
Session Organizer:
Ashley Machado
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Spectral Feature Selection Approaches for Weapons Grade Plutonium Classification with GADRAS-DRF
1:40–2:00PM MDT
Tanner Heatherly (Oregon State), Camille Palmer (Oregon State)
Paper
Improvements in Line Broadening for Simulating Microcalorimetric Gamma Spectroscopy
2:00–2:20PM MDT
James T. Cahill (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Patience Obasi (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Feynman-Y Measurements of Cm-244 and Cf-252 Sources with Organic Scintillators
2:20–2:40PM MDT
Oscar P. Stennes (Univ. Michigan), Flynn B. Darby (Univ. Michigan), Juliann R. Lamproe (Univ. Michigan), Shaun D. Clarke (Univ. Michigan), Sara A. Pozzi (Univ. Michigan)
Modeling of Scintillation and Semiconductor Detectors for Nonproliferation Applications
2:40–3:00PM MDT
Tyrell B. Simmons (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Aristidis Loumis (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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