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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 RPD
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|2:40–4:20PM EST
Session Chair:
Joshua Hykes (Studsvik Scandpower)
Alternate Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov (TAMU)
Session Organizer:
Staff Producer:
Jay Bogardus (American Nuclear Society)
The focus of the presentations will be to share current core design capabilities, developments, and methods for addressing issues impacting core designs and associated reactor engineering support activities. Particular issues may include recent operating experiences, Accident Tolerant Fuel (ATF), load follow and alternative to load follow, high burnup/high enrichment in core design economics, and fuel and poison management economics.
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Application of Framatome's 3D Control Rod Ejection Methodology (AREA) to the Palo Verde Generating Station
MIchelle Guzzardo (Framatome), Richard C. Deveney (Framatome), David Medek (APS), Keith W. Maupin (Framatome)
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PWR Integral Gadolinia Burnable Absorber Loading Design In A Once-Through Core Reactivity Swing Minimization Assessment
Gray S. Chang (JFoster & Associates), Julie Foster (JFoster & Associates), Jim R. Harrell (Zachry Nuclear)
VVER-1000 Forum Benchmark
Romain Henry (Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) gGmbH), Kiril Velkov (Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) gGmbH)
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