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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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DOE issues new NEPA rule and procedures—and accelerates DOME reactor testing
Meeting a deadline set in President Trump’s May 23 executive order “Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the Department of Energy,” the DOE on June 30 updated information on its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) rulemaking and implementation procedures and published on its website an interim final rule that rescinds existing regulations alongside new implementing procedures.
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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