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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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Front-end nuclear fuel supply cooperation: Turning allied interdependence into strategic advantage
The global nuclear revival, which is fueled by unprecedented demand for firm, affordable, dispatchable power for artificial intelligence and data center build-out, energy security imperatives, and climate commitments, has exposed a structural reality of the Western fuel cycle: No single allied nation currently possesses the full suite of front-end capabilities. From mining through conversion, enrichment, fabrication, and the emerging deconversion and metallization steps required for reactor fuels, capability is distributed across Canada, France, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States (collectively, the “Sapporo Five”), as well as a small group of close partners.
Technical Session|Modeling, Analysis, and Methods
Wednesday, October 12, 2022|10:15–11:55AM EDT|Branle
Session Chair:
Ian Porter (GE)
Alternate Chair:
Olivier Marchand (IRSN)
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Accelerated Fuel Qualification: BISON Validation to In-Situ Cladding Burst Test
10:15–10:40AM EDT
Nathan Capps (ORNL), Ryan Sweet (ORNL), Kenneth Kane (ORNL), Samuel Bell (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Paper
Development in OFFBEAT of a Dynamic-Mesh Incremental Stress-Strain Solver and Validation Against the IFA 650.2 Ballooning Experiment
10:40–11:05AM EDT
Edoardo Luciano Brunetto (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Alessandro Scolaro (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Carlo Fiorina (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Andreas Pautz (Paul Scherrer Institut)
Mechanical Property Evaluation with Nanoindentation Method on Zircaloy-4 Cladding Tube After LOCA-Simulated Experiment
11:05–11:30AM EDT
K. Kakiuchi (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), A. Yamauchi (Secretariat of Nuclear Regulation Authority), M. Amaya (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Y. Udagawa (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), K. Kitano (Secretariat of Nuclear Regulation Authority)
