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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 RPD|Cosponsored by THD
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|2:40–4:20PM EST
Session Chair:
Benjamin R. Betzler
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Staff Producer:
Jay Bogardus (American Nuclear Society)
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Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis of Core Criticality for the Transformational Challenge Reactor
Jianwei Hu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Brian J. Ade (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Benjamin R. Betzler (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Paper
AI Optimization of the Reactor Unit Cell to Support TCR Optimization
Briana D. Hiscox (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Vladimir Sobes (University of Tennessee Knoxville), Emilian Popov (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Richard Archibald (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Benjamin R. Betzler (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Kurt A. Terrani (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Design and Modeling of Regulating Control Elements for the Transformational Challenge Reactor (TCR)
Joseph R. Burns (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Phillip Chesser (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Peter Wang (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Eliott Fountain (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Ben R. Betzler (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Brian J. Ade (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Aurelien X. Bergeron (Argonne National Laboratory)
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