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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Aalo secures $100 million in Series B funding
It was near-certain that more good news was on the horizon for some of the 10 companies recently selected for the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program. Now, only one week later, one of those companies—Aalo Atomics—has become the first to make a major headline with its announcement that it has secured $100 million in Series B funding.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Thursday, December 2, 2021|3:05–4:50PM EST |Columbia 12
Session Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni (UC Berkeley)
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Session Organizer:
Jean C. Ragusa (TAMU)
Student Assistant:
Michael Seneca
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Considerations for NMA of Molten Salt Reactors
3:10–3:30PM EST
Nathan Shoman (Sandia), Michael Higgins (Sandia)
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Molten Salt Reactor Source Term Methodology
3:30–3:50PM EST
Sarah E. Creasman (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), T. Jay Harrison (ORNL), Lawrence H. Heilbronn (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville)
Preliminary Neutronics Modeling of a Molten Salt iso-Breeder Reactor
3:50–4:10PM EST
C. Erika Moss (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Ondřej Chvála (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Harrison Reisinger (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Alexander M. Wheeler (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville)
Coupled Multiphysics Simulations of Molten Salt Reactors Subjected to Earthquakes
4:10–4:30PM EST
Chandrakanth Bolisetti (INL), Kyung Tae Kim (INL), Guillaume Giudicelli (INL), Abdalla Abou-Jaoude (INL), Som Dhulipala (INL), Paolo Balestra (INL)
Parametric Analysis of Salt-Driven MSR Design Domains
4:30–4:50PM EST
Dahvien V. Dean (Texas A&M Univ.), Jonathan Scherr (Texas A&M Univ.), Pavel V. Tsvetkov (Texas A&M Univ.)
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