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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|3:15–4:55PM CDT|Salon B
Session Chair:
Joakim Karlsson
Co-Chair:
Dan Lutz
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KP-FHR Fuel Qualification Methodology
3:15–3:40PM CDT
Ryan Latta (Kairos Power), Micah J. Hackett (Kairos Power)
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Fuel Performance Benchmark for the European Sodium Fast Reactor with Metallic Fuel
3:40–4:05PM CDT
Daniele Timpano (Laboratory for Reactor Physics and Systems Behaviour, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)), Evaldas Bubelis (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)), Luca Farina (Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI)), Antonio Jiménez-Carrascosa (Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI)), Aydin Karahan (Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)), Konstantin Mikityuk (Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI)), Sara Perez-Martin (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)), Alessandro Scolaro (Laboratory for Reactor Physics and Systems Behaviour, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)), Nicolas E. Stauff (Argonne National Laboratory (ANL))
Fabrication of Low-O/M Fast Reactor MOX Fuel and Analysis on its Oxygen Potential Behaviors
4:05–4:30PM CDT
Shun Hirooka (JAEA), Romain J. Vauchy (JAEA), Yuta Horii (JAEA), Takeo Sunaoshi (Inspection Development Company), Kosuke Saito (JAEA)
Enhanced Fuel Performance Analysis in the AGR-like FHR: A Two-Dimensional Approach Using OFFBEAT
4:30–4:55PM CDT
Alejandra De Lara (Univ. Cambridge), Alessandro Scolaro (EPFL), Eugene Shwageraus (Univ. Cambridge)