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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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MIT-led model simulates radionuclide migration in geologic disposal systems
Researchers with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working with scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of Orléans, have modeled radionuclide behavior in deep geologic formations, offering a tool for developing a defensible safety case for the underground disposal of radioactive waste.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MCD
Wednesday, November 20, 2024|1:00–2:45PM EST|Biscayne 3
Session Chair:
Dean Wang
Alternate Chair:
Sebastian Schunert
Session Organizer:
Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
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Preliminary Steady-State Thermal Hydraulics Analysis of Mixed HEU-LEU Transition Cores for the MIT Research Reactor with Statistical Uncertainty Propagation Using STAT7 Code
1:00–1:20PM EST
Sero Yang (ANL), Tyler Sumner (ANL), Alberto Talamo (ANL), Kyle Anderson (ANL), David Jaluvka (ANL), John Stillman (ANL), Dhongik Yoon (ANL), Walid Mohamed (ANL), Lin-wen Hu (MIT), Erik Wilson (ANL)
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Interpretable Machine Learning Approaches for Predicting Critical Heat Flux
1:20–1:40PM EST
Elvan Sahin (Virginia Tech), Juliana P. Duarte (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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