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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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Copper melting behavior at extreme temperatures could inform fusion materials
Using SLAC’s electron camera, researchers recorded timestamps of solid copper atoms (orange) as they melted (yellow) after being blasted with laser heat. This graphic shows how copper atoms changed over a period of several femtoseconds (millionths of a billionth of a second), notated here as fractions of a picosecond. Instead of the predicted collapse, the researchers saw a gradual melting. (Image: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has announced researchers have conducted experiments testing how copper melts under extreme conditions, such as those it might be exposed to in a fusion machine. The results, published in Nature Communications, found that a copper thin film was more resilient to melting than models had predicted, uncovering molecular dynamics that had been missing from calculations.
“These results greatly improve the simulations we use to predict which materials have the best shot at surviving the extreme conditions of future fusion reaction chambers,” said Mianzhen Mo, the SLAC staff scientist who led the research.
Decommissioning Environmental Sciences and Remote Technology 2024
Technical Session|Sponsored by RRSD
Tuesday, November 19, 2024|1:00–2:45PM EST|Merritt 2
Session Chair:
Young Soo Park
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Fan Zhang
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Exoskeleton and Humanoid Robot Systems for Nuclear Site Worker Safety
1:00–1:20PM EST
Jared Li (IHMC), Reese Peterson (IHMC), Luigi Penco (IHMC)
Paper
Integrating Gaze Based Control into a Virtual Hot-cell Environment for Supernumerary Telemanipulation
1:20–1:40PM EST
Arunim Bhattacharya (Northern Illinois Univ.), Hamza Muzammal (ANL), Young Soo Park (ANL), Sachit Butail (Northern Illinois Univ.)
Performance Enhancement of Dual-Arm Telerobotic System for Robotic Hotbox Operation
1:40–2:00PM EST
Hyeonseok Choi (ANL), Young Soo Park (ANL)
Long Term Surveillance for Hanford Tank Farms Using Mobile Platforms
2:00–2:20PM EST
Brendon Cintas (Florida Int'l Univ.), Leonel Lagos (Florida Int'l Univ.), Anthony Abrahao (Florida Int'l Univ.), Douglas Reid (Washington River Protection Solutions), Kayle Boomer (Washington River Protection Solutions)
Robotic Digital Twin for Hot Cell for Nuclear Waste Disposition
2:20–2:40PM EST
Hamza Muzammal (ANL), Young Soo Park (ANL), Venugopal Varma (ORNL)
Semi-Autonomous Repair Using Mobile Manipulator for Nuclear Facilities and Tank Farms
2:40–2:45PM EST
Santiago Cuartas Palacio (Florida Int'l Univ.), Anthony Abrahao (Florida Int'l Univ.), Mackenson Telusma (Florida Int'l Univ.), Leonel Lagos (Florida Int'l Univ.)
Robotic Digital Twin for Immersive Training, Rehearsal and Operations in Simulated Glovebox Environments
2:45–2:50PM EST
Christian Pilon (AtkinsRealis), Robert Marwood (AtkinsRealis), Paul Townson (AtkinsRealis)
