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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|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)