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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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Two new ANS standards issued
Two new American Nuclear Society standards recently received approval from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The new standard ANSI/ANS-56.2-2026, Containment Isolation Provisions for Fluid Systems After a LOCA, is a revision of historic ANS-56.2-1984 (W1999). ANS-GS-30.1-2026, Integrating Risk and Performance Objectives into Standards for New Reactor Designs, is a new guidance standard.
Both standards are available for purchase in the ANS Online Store.
Technical Session
Monday, July 22, 2024|1:00–2:50PM CDT|Madison Ballroom
Session Chair:
Rosaria Villari (ENEA Frascati)
Alternate Chair:
Iole Palermo
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Design Progress for a Spherical Tokamak Advanced Reactor (STAR)
1:00–1:25PM CDT
J.E. Menard (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), J. Berkery (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), T. Brown (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), N. Bertelli (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), L. Delgado-Aparicio (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), F. Ebrahimi (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), E. Emdee (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), N. Ferraro (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), N. Gorelenkov (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), M. Gorelenkova (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), A. Khodak (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), A. Kleiner (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), B. Linn (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), R. Majeski (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), R. Maingi (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), M. Ono (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), A. Pankin (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), J. Parisi (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), V. Pillai (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), C. Rana (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), K. Shah (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), P. Titus (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Y. Zhai (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
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Recent Progress on the HELIAS Dual Coolant Lithium Lead Breeding Blanket (DCLL BB) Program
1:25–1:50PM CDT
I. Palermo (CIEMAT), J. Alguacil (UNED), G. Bongioví (Università di Palermo), J.P. Catalán (UNED), I. Fernández-Berceruelo (CIEMAT, Spain), S. Giambrone (Università di Palermo), G. Fonfría (CIEMAT, Spain), T. Lyytinen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), J.A. Noguerón (CIEMAT, Spain), V. Queral (CIEMAT, Spain), F.R. Urgorri (CIEMAT, Spain), A. Snicker (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), D. Sosa (CIEMAT, Spain)
Project LIBRA: Investigating Tritium Breeding and Extraction Efficiency for Fusion Reactors
1:50–2:10PM CDT
Mahmuod Bakr (Univ. Bristol), Hugo Dominguez-Andrade (Univ. Bristol), Alex Little (Univ. Bristol), Norbert Wegrzynowski (Univ. Bristol), Alicja Szczepanska (Univ. Bristol), Yannick Verbelen (Univ. Bristol), Tom Mooney (Univ. Bristol), Rob Havell (Univ. Bristol), Thomas Scott (Univ. Bristol)
Nested Pebble Bed Blanket (NesPeB)
2:10–2:30PM CDT
V. Badalassi (ORNL), J.W. Bae (ORNL), K. Borowiec (ORNL), A. Sircar (ORNL)