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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|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)
