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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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North American construction is back—smaller and faster—at OPG’s Darlington
“The nuclear renaissance is real here,” said Ontario Power Generation’s Subo Sinnathamby on May 8, one year to the day after OPG secured a final investment decision to build the first of four planned BWRX-300 reactors at its Darlington nuclear power plant, and shortly after the new reactor’s foundation was lifted into place. “We got our license to construct in April and our [final investment decision] in May, and we’ve been off to the races since.”
Technical Session|Power Reactor Operations, Safety, and Reliability
Saturday, April 5, 2025|3:15–4:35PM MDT|Valle Grande 2
Session Chair:
Kevin Donnelly
Alternate Chair:
Annika Tedstrom
Session Organizer:
Ashley Machado
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Testing Coupling of the TRANSFORM Library to Julia
3:15–3:35PM MDT
Bailey Emerson-Betti (Univ. New Mexico), Scott Greenwood (ORNL), Vineet Kumar (ORNL)
Paper
Qualification of SIMULATE-5K for Stability Analysis of BWRs
3:35–3:55PM MDT
Giovanni Ronchi (ETH Zurich), Abdelhamid Dokhane (Axpo)
McSLAP Coupling to SIMULATE5 and PRESTO-2 for the Calculation of Dryout Safety Limits
3:55–4:15PM MDT
Pierluigi Tagliabue (Axpo), Giorgio Malavasi (Axpo)
Design of a Calandria-style Heavy Water Microreactor
4:15–4:35PM MDT
Max Goddard (Georgia Tech), Calvin D. Washburn (Georgia Tech), Connor Kelly (Georgia Tech)