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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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General Atomics announces breeding blanket test facility
General Atomics announced it is developing design concepts in collaboration with the Department of Energy for the Fusion Blanket Component Test Facility (BCTF), which will test full-scale breeding blankets.
“No one has tested a fusion blanket at this scale. While there are more research and development challenges ahead, a BCTF brings us closer to turning fusion from proven science into practical, sustainable power,” said Anantha Krishnan, senior vice president of the General Atomics Energy Group.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MCD
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|2:40–4:20PM EST
Session Chair:
Kathryn D. Huff
Alternate Chair:
Jeffrey A. Favorite
Session Organizer:
Brian C. Kiedrowski
Staff Producer:
Ashley Jiminian (American Nuclear Society)
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Applying Constrained Bayesian Optimization to the Design of Criticality Experiments
Daniel J. Siefman (LLNL), Catherine M. Percher (LLNL), Jesse Norris (LLNL)
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Deep Surrogate Models for Multi-dimensional Regression of Reactor Power
Akshay Dave (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jarod Wilson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Kaichao Sun (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Assembly Combinatorial Optimisation with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Majdi I. Radaideh (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign), Benoit Forget (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Koroush Shirvan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Analysis of Reactor Simulations with Deep Learning Surrogate Models
Majdi I. Radaideh (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign), Tomasz Kozlowski (University of Illinois)