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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Oklo announces plans to collaborate with Vertiv and Liberty
In back-to-back press releases, Oklo recently announced two new partnerships that seek to advance the deployment of its commercial power reactors in the data center market.
These partnerships, one with Ohio-based Vertiv Holdings and one with Colorado-based Liberty Energy, continue Oklo’s trend in working to position their Aurora powerhouse as a key part of the energy solution for powering the AI boom.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPSD
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|4:50–6:30PM EST
Session Chair:
Igor Remec
Alternate Chair:
Irina I. Popova
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Staff Producer:
Julie Bry (American Nuclear Society)
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Supplemental Shielding for the Advanced Photon Source Upgrade Particle Accumulator Ring
Uli Wienands (Argonne National Laboratory), Chih-yuan Yao (Argonne National Laboratory), Kent Wootton (Argonne National Laboratory), Bradley J. Micklich (Argonne National Laboratory), Stanley Wiedmeyer (Argonne National Laboratory), John Vacca (Argonne National Laboratory), Greg Fystro (Argonne National Laboratory), Victor Guarino (Argonne National Laboratory), Jeffrey Dooling (Argonne National Laboratory), Glenn Decker (Argonne National Laboratory), Joseph Calvey (Argonne National Laboratory), Michael Borland (Argonne National Laboratory), Katherine Harkay (Argonne National Laboratory)
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A Fundamental Study on the Calculation Environment for Radiation Shielding Design of Accelerator Facilities
Nobuo Ikeda (Kyusyu University), Nobuhiro Shigyo (Kyusyu University), Ken-ichi Kimura (Fujita Corporation)
DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF THE SHIELDING OF AN ACCELERATOR DRIVEN THORIUM-FUELED MOLTEN SALT LOOP USING MCNP6
Yassin A. Hassan (Texas A&M University), Rodolfo Vaghetto (Texas A&M University), Se R. Yang (Texas A&M University), Luay Alawneh (Texas A&M University), Eman H. Alsmadi (Texas A&M University)
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