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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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General Atomics announces breeding blanket test facility
General Atomics announced it is developing design concepts in collaboration with the Department of Energy for the Fusion Blanket Component Test Facility (BCTF), which will test full-scale breeding blankets.
“No one has tested a fusion blanket at this scale. While there are more research and development challenges ahead, a BCTF brings us closer to turning fusion from proven science into practical, sustainable power,” said Anantha Krishnan, senior vice president of the General Atomics Energy Group.
Technical Session|Lightning Talk
Saturday, April 18, 2026|1:15–2:15PM CDT|RUDR 401
Session Chair:
William F. Sanders (TAMU)
Alternate Chair:
Zach Lassater
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Monomer and Crosslinker Effects on Photopolymerized Organic Plastic Scintillators
1:15–1:25PM CDT
Margo Cicero (U.S. Naval Academy), Joseph Latta (U.S. Naval Academy), Peter Joyce (U.S. Naval Academy), Megan Beromi (U.S. Naval Academy)
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Mechanical Improvements to the Florida-Livermore Attenuation and Scattering Experiment (FLASE)
1:25–1:35PM CDT
Neena K. Schramm (Univ. Florida), Emily Gunger (Univ. Florida), Andreas Enqvist (Univ. Florida), Steven Dazeley (LLNL)
Studying Mixed Convection Heat Transfer in a Helical Cruciform 7-Rod Bundle for Molten Salt Reactor Applications
1:35–1:45PM CDT
Jacob Cox (Kansas State), Felix Sandoval Garcia (Kansas State), Hossam H. Abdellatif (Kansas State), Anna Iskhakova (Kansas State), Arsen Iskhakov (Kansas State)
Reconstruction Performance of Muon Scattering Tomography in Spherical Detector Geometries
1:45–1:55PM CDT
Christopher R. Beck (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Tayfun Akyurek (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology)