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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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Industry Update—August 2026
Here is a recap of recent industry happenings:
NuScale looks to Paragon for I&C
Paragon Energy Solutions, a Mirion Technologies company, has won a contract from NuScale Power to complete the final design development of Paragon’s Highly Integrated Protection System (HIPS) for use with the 77-MWe NuScale Power Module, which can be deployed with a single control room supporting as many as 12 modules. Under the contract, Paragon is to complete the nonrecurring engineering and design deliverables for three instrumentation and control systems built on the HIPS platform: the module protection system, the safety display and indication system, and the plant protection system.
Technical Session
Tuesday, October 7, 2025|1:00–2:40PM CDT|Brentwood/Franklin
Session Chair:
Jeff Kobelak
Co-Chair:
Ian Porter
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Development of CUPID-FRAPTRAN Integrated Code for LBLOCA Analysis
1:00–1:25PM CDT
SungUk Lee (KAERI), Hyochan Kim (KAERI), Chang-Hwan Shin (KAERI), Jae Ryong Lee (KAERI), Seung-Jun Lee (KAERI)
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Capabilities, Recent Developments, and Validation Status of the TESPA-ROD Fuel Performance Code for Nuclear Reactor Safety Analysis
1:25–1:50PM CDT
Jonathan Sappl (GRS), Aleksandra Rezchikova (GRS), Robert Kilger (GRS)
Code-to-Code Benchmarking of PCMI among High-Fidelity Fuel Performance Codes
1:50–2:15PM CDT
Milica Krstovic (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Alessandro Scolaro (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Isabelle Guenot-Delahaie (CEA), Asko Arkoma (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), Bruno Michel (CEA), Mathieu Hursin (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
On the Implementation of a Qualification Model for Nuclear Safety Codes, and its Application to the Verification & Validation of OFFBEAT
2:15–2:40PM CDT
Karl J. X. Sturm (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Edoardo L. Brunetto (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Sara Maccario (PSI), Carlo Fiorina (TAMU), Mathieu Hursin (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Alessandro Scolaro (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
