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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Deep Fission raises $30M in financing
Since the Department of Energy kicked off a 10-company race with its Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program to bring test reactors on line by July 4, 2026, the industry has been waiting for new headlines proclaiming progress. Aalo Atomics broke ahead of the pack first by announcing last week that it had broken ground on its 50-MWe Aalo-X at Idaho National Laboratory.
The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Thermal Hydraulic Methods
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|2:40–4:20PM EST|2
Session Chair:
Gretar Tryggvason (John Hopkins Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Igor Bolotnov (NC State Univ.)
Track Organizer:
Scott Palmtag (NC State Univ.)
Staff Producers:
Monica V Pham (MIT)
Ralph Wiser (MIT)
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Achievements and Ongoing Challenges for advanced CFD Boiling Closure Model Development using Physical Insights from Validation-Oriented High-Fidelity Boiling Experiment
Jun Soo Yoo (Idaho National Laboratory), Carlos E. Estrada-Perez (Texas A&M University), Yassin A. Hassan (Texas A&M University)
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CASL Advanced Hydrodynamic Closures for Multiphase CFD
Emilio Baglietto (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Rosemary M. Sugrue (Jensen Hughes Inc.), Nazar Lubchenko (Tudor Investment Corporation), Benjamin L. Magolan (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Brian Casel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
A Physics-based Model for Subcooled Flow Boiling with Application to Light Water Reactor Design and Analysis
Ravikishore Kommajosyula (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Etienne Demarly (Exponent, Inc.), Emilio Baglietto (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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