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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
Standards Program
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Startup looks to commercialize inertial fusion energy
Another startup hoping to capitalize on progress the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has made in realizing inertial fusion energy has been launched. On August 27, San Francisco–based Inertia Enterprises, a private fusion power start-up, announced the formation of the company with the goal of commercializing fusion energy.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|4:50–6:30PM EST
Session Chair:
Lander Ibarra (Argonne)
Alternate Chair:
Kevin R. Robb
Session Organizer:
Staff Producer:
Janet Davis (American Nuclear Society)
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Flow Rate Estimation from Transient Temperature Response of a Forced Convection Molten Salt Test Facility
Ojasvin Arora (Texas A&M University), Se R. Yang (Texas A&M University), Rodolfo Vaghetto (Texas A&M University), Yassin A. Hassan (Texas A&M University)
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Investigating the validity of the Boussinesq approximation on natural circulation of molten salt with internal heat source using OpenFOAM
DongHun Lee (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), In Cheol Bang (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)
Molten Salt Air-Cooled Heat Exchanger Fluid Dynamics
Nolan Goth (ORNL), Marilyn Delgado (Texas A&M University College Station), Trevor Kent Howard (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Kevin R. Robb (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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