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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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NN Asks: Is the U.S. ready for nuclear construction to accelerate?
Craig Stover
Yes, but . . .
The United States is better positioned today for nuclear construction than it has been in decades. Some of that comes from the experience gained at Vogtle and V.C. Summer. I was part of the team that helped start the V.C. Summer project in 2008, and at that time we were trying to build a nuclear construction workforce from scratch. We learned a lot through that effort, and many of those lessons learned have since been studied, documented, and shared.
The nuclear industry is also benefiting from the wave of investment that started growing around 2020. Over the last five or six years, there has been a serious effort across the country to get ready for new nuclear builds. The U.S. government and the private sector are investing billions of dollars in new nuclear. Much of that work is happening before widespread commercial deployment contracts are signed. This is real, and we need to prepare.
Technical Session|Sponsored by ETWDD
Tuesday, November 19, 2024|1:00–2:45PM EST|Canaveral 1
Session Chair:
Suibel Schuppner (U.S. Dept. of Energy)
Alternate Chair:
Pamela Rich (INL)
Session Organizer:
Andrew E. Thomas (INL)
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VVER-1000 Pin-Cell Nuclear Data UQ Using SANDY/Serpent
1:00–1:20PM EST
Spencer C. Ercanbrack (NCSU), Muhammad R. Altahhan (NCSU), Luca Fiorito (SCK CEN), Maria Avramova (NCSU), Kostadin Ivanov (NCSU)
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GOTHIC Benchmark to a Containment Vessel Passive Cooling Experiment
1:20–1:40PM EST
Diego Ross (Numerical Advisory Solutions), Jeff Lane (Numerical Advisory Solutions), Jordan Penley (Numerical Advisory Solutions), Thomas Moore (Numerical Advisory Solutions)
Advanced Instrumentation of a Wire Wrapped Sodium Fast Reactor Fuel Rod Simulator
1:40–2:00PM EST
Nicholas J. Thoreson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Shaun R. Aakre (TerraPower), Mark H. Anderson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
CONSTELATION Model Results of Validation Experiment for HENRI in TREAT
2:00–2:20PM EST
Austin M. Warren (Oregon State), Guillaume P. Mignot (Oregon State), Trevor K. Howard (Oregon State), Wade R. Marcum (Oregon State)
On the Definitions of Automation Trustworthiness and Automation Transparency in Nuclear Power Domain
2:20–2:40PM EST
Muhammad Hammad Khalid (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Ha Bui (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Ahmad Al Rashdan (INL), Zahra Mohaghegh (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
