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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
Standards Program
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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.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) 2020 Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fusion Energy
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Ales Necas (TAE)
Staff Producer:
David Strutz (American Nuclear Society)
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MTF at General Fusion
Michel Georges Laberge (General Fusion)
Paper
First Light Fusion: Solving the Problem of Fusion Power with the Simplest Machine Possible
Jamie Darling (First Light Fusion Ltd), Paul Holligan, Luis Sebastian Caballero Bendixsen, Tom Clayson, Oli Hall, Simon Hall, James Parkin, Hugo Doyle, Nick Hawker
SHINE: A commercial approach to solving the big challenges with nuclear technology
Greg Piefer (SHINE Medical Techologies LLC)
A faster route to fusion power: The high field spherical tokamak with high temperature superconducting magnets
David Kingham (Tokamak Energy Ltd)
Research and development needs of sustained spheromak configuration for fusion energy applications
Derek A. Sutherland (CTFusion, LLC)
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