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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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North American construction is back—smaller and faster—at OPG’s Darlington
“The nuclear renaissance is real here,” said Ontario Power Generation’s Subo Sinnathamby on May 8, one year to the day after OPG secured a final investment decision to build the first of four planned BWRX-300 reactors at its Darlington nuclear power plant, and shortly after the new reactor’s foundation was lifted into place. “We got our license to construct in April and our [final investment decision] in May, and we’ve been off to the races since.”
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Thursday, December 2, 2021|1:00–2:45PM EST |Columbia 10
Session Chair:
Xu Wu (NC State Univ.)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Jun Wang (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Student Assistant:
Michael Seneca
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A Numerical Method of Computing Wigner Energy Release Rate of Irradiated Graphite
1:05–1:25PM EST
Dezhi Dai (ANL), Landon Brockmeyer (ANL), Roberto Ponciroli (ANL)
Paper
Direct Numerical Simulation of Supercritical CO2 Flow: Development of a Plugin for the REFPROP/ PROPATH Properties Database in the Spectral Element Code NekRS
1:25–1:45PM EST
Tri Nguyen (Penn State Univ.), Elia Merzari (Penn State Univ.), Haomin Yuan (ANL)
Inertial Coupling Implementation in the DFM
1:45–2:05PM EST
Paul W. Stockett (Purdue Univ.), Alejandro Clausse (CNEA-CONICET), Martin Lopez-De-Bertodano (Purdue Univ.)
Experimental Investigation of Debris Bed Cooling Using Seawater
2:05–2:25PM EST
Zayed Ahmed (Kansas State Univ.), Steven Eckels (Kansas State Univ.), Hitesh Bindra (Kansas State Univ.)