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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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DOE approves Xcimer’s laser fusion power plant design
The Department of Energy has approved Xcimer Energy's Athena fusion power plant preconceptual technical design. With this milestone achieved, the Denver, Colo.-based company is now moving forward with its plans to develop economical laser inertial confinement fusion using two beamlines, gas laser technology, and a molten salt fusion chamber.
The National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory demonstrated net energy gain from inertial confinement fusion in 2022 using solid-state glass lasers and 192 beamlines.
Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2024)
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 20, 2024|3:15–5:00PM EST|Coral B
Session Chair:
SuJong Yoon (TerraPower)
Alternate Chair:
Victor Habiyaremye (NRG)
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Preliminary Experiment on Local Hot Spots in Liquid Metal Cooled Wire-wrapped Pin Bundles
3:15–3:35PM EST
Taehwan Ahn (ETH Zurich), Victor Petrov (ETH Zürich), Annalisa Manera (ETH Zürich), Wilhelm-Martin Bissels (PSI)
Paper
Code Comparison of SE2ANL and DASSH Using a Medium-Size SFR
3:35–3:55PM EST
Michael A. Smith (ANL), Kyle Ramey (ANL), Nicolas Stauff (ANL)
Modeling of Natural Convection in Low Prandtl Number Fluids Using a Novel Local Algebraic Heat Flux Model
3:55–4:15PM EST
Victor Habiyaremye (Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group), Akshat Mathur (Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group), Ferry Roelofs (Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group)
Coupling SAS-FATE for Mechanistic Source Term Analysis of Lead-Cooled Fast Reactors
4:15–4:35PM EST
Sung Jin Lee (Fauske & Assoc.), Luciano Maniaci (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Jim Scobel (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Jun Liao (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Paolo Ferroni (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Dan O’Grady (ANL)
Experimental Friction Factor for Wire-Wrapped Bundle with a Porous Blockage
4:35–4:55PM EST
Matthew Kinsky (TAMU), Dalton Pyle (TAMU), Craig Menezes (TAMU), Yassin Hassan (TAMU)
Numerical Study on Sodium Heat Transfer Characteristics for PLANDTL 37-Pin Fuel Assembly
4:55–5:05PM EST
Won-Seok Ryoo (Gachon Univ.), Gi-Uk Choi (Gachon Univ.), Jae-Ho Jeong (Gachon Univ.)