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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
Wednesday, October 8, 2025|8:00–9:40AM CDT|Salon B
Session Chair:
Aylin Kucuk
Co-Chair:
Yixing Sung
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The U.S. Next Generation Fuels (NGF) Program: Unleashing Advanced Nuclear Fuels
8:00–8:25AM CDT
Daniel M. Wachs (INL)
Paper
The Use of Powder Injection Molding for the Fabrication of Oxygen-Sensitive Advanced Nuclear Fuels
8:25–8:50AM CDT
Deana Tsang (LANL), Adrien Terricabras (LANL), Antoine Claisse (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Joshua White (LANL)
Progress Toward Revolutionary Reactor Designs using Nature-Inspired Nuclear Fuel
8:50–9:15AM CDT
Nicolas E. Woolstenhulme (INL), Nicolas P. Martin (INL), Joshua Zelina (INL), Paul A. Ferney (INL), Austen D. Fradeneck (INL), Adam Zabriskie (INL), Mark H. Anderson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Brett Prussack (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Koroush Shirvan (MIT), Youyeon Choi (MIT), Jeffrey L. Reed (Framatome), Kai Tai (Framatome)
Experimental and Computational Studies on Thermal Hydraulics of Triply Periodic Minimal Surface Lattices as Nuclear Fuel
9:15–9:40AM CDT
Brett A. Prussack (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Erik Pagenkopf (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Silvino B. Prieto (INL), Austen Fradeneck (INL), Zander Ray (Oregon State), Joshua Gess (Oregon State), Tai Kai (Framatome), Jeffrey L. Reed (Framatome), Nicholas E. Woolstenhulme (INL), Gregory Nellis (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Mark H. Anderson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
