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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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MIT professor develops method to verify compliance with Outer Space Treaty
Danagoulian
Areg Danagoulian of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is proposing a mechanism for verifying that Earth-orbiting satellites are in compliance with the Outer Space Treaty, which prohibits the placement of nuclear weapons in space. Danagoulian’s “concept and feasibility study,” titled “Verification of the Outer Space Treaty with cosmic protons,” was published recently in the journal Nature.
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)
