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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Deep Fission raises $30M in financing
Since the Department of Energy kicked off a 10-company race with its Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program to bring test reactors on line by July 4, 2026, the industry has been waiting for new headlines proclaiming progress. Aalo Atomics broke ahead of the pack first by announcing last week that it had broken ground on its 50-MWe Aalo-X at Idaho National Laboratory.
Technical Session|Sponsored by ANSTD
Thursday, November 19, 2020|2:30–4:15PM EST
Session Chair:
Jorge Navarro
Alternate Chair:
Paolo F. Venneri
Session Organizer:
Jeffrey C. King
Staff Producer:
Ashley Jiminian (American Nuclear Society)
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Surveillance Using Cube Satellite Platforms for Nuclear Security: Phenomena, Signatures, and Feasible Architectures
Mario Mendoza (Texas A&M University), Pavel V. Tsvetkov (Texas A&M University)
Paper
Magnetically Shielded RCIEC-Helicon Hybrid Space Propulsion System
Rohan Puri (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA), George H. Miley (University of Illinois), Qiheng Cai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Erik P. Ziehm (University of Illinois), Raul Patino (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign), Najam Raad (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)
Concept Designs and Considerations for Advanced Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
Mark Patterson (Southern Research Institute), Michael Johns (Southern Research), Jimmy Allen (Dynetics Inc.,), Michael G. Houts (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), Florent Heidet (Argonne National Laboratory), Nick V. Smith (Idaho National Laboratory)
ANTIMATTER-BASED PROPULSION FOR EXOPLANET EXPLORATION
Gerald P. Jackson (Beam Alpha, Inc.)
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