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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|Radiation Detection and Imaging
Friday, April 4, 2025|2:40–4:00PM MDT|Santa Ana AB
Session Chair:
Alexandria S. Ragsdale
Alternate Chair:
Sydney A. Dowben
Session Organizer:
Ashley Machado
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Novel gamma radiation detectors based on PLA biopolymer detector (PLAD) sensor technologies.
2:40–3:00PM MDT
Qi Heng Law (Purdue Univ.), Stepan Ozerov (Purdue Univ.), Rusi Taleyarkhan (Purdue Univ.), Elizabeth Dunlevy (Purdue Univ.)
Paper
Monte Carlo N-Particle (MCNP6) Transport Model Simulations of a Silicon-Surface Barrier Detector for Predictions of 232U Activity Concentration
3:00–3:20PM MDT
Gil B. Rubia (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Mahmoud Khatab (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Automated Liquid Nitrogen Cooling for HPGe/Clover Detector Array
3:20–3:40PM MDT
Parker M. Chute (Oregon State), Alex Spurling (Oregon State), Alexander T. Chemey (Oregon State)
SCRAM: Scatterable Radiation Monitoring - Photodiode Diode Detectors
3:40–4:00PM MDT
Brandon A. Spence (U.S. Military Academy), Kimberly Munro (U.S. Military Academy), David Polaski (U.S. Military Academy), Amar Rodgers (U.S. Military Academy), Lucas Tucker (U.S. Military Academy)
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