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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
Standards Program
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ORNL, INL make deals on AI for nuclear licensing
The United States has tight new deadlines—18 months, max—for licensing commercial reactor designs. The Department of Energy is marshaling the nuclear expertise and high-performance computing assets of its national laboratories, in partnership with private tech companies, to develop generative AI tools and large-scale simulations that could help get nuclear reactor designs through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s licensing process—or the DOE’s own reactor pilot program. “Accelerate” and “streamline” are the verbs of choice in recent announcements from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory, as they describe plans with Atomic Canyon, Microsoft, and Amazon.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Tuesday, November 15, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Sonoran 6
Session Chair:
Bao-Wen Yang
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Lane Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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Update on Out-of-Pile LOCA Experiment
1:00–1:20PM MST
Musa Moussaoui (Oregon State), Trevor Kent Howard (Oregon State), Wade Marcum (Oregon State), Guillaume Mignot (Oregon State), Aaron Weiss (Oregon State)
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Project Overview of Thermal-Hydraulic and Mechanical Behavior of Near-Term ATF Design in Reflood Conditions
1:20–1:40PM MST
WooHyun Jung (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Cole Dunbar (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Michael Corradini (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Kumar Sridharan (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), David Kamerman (INL), Robert Armstrong (INL), Hwasung Yeom (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Analysis on the Preliminary Gap Conductance Test with Single Primary Heat Extraction and Removal Emulator
1:40–2:00PM MST
Minseop Song (INL), Zachary D. Sellers (INL), Jeremy L. Hartvigsen (INL), Sunming Qin (INL), Piyush Sabharwall (INL)
Initial Horizontal Co-Flow Gas Injection Studies in Water for Liquid Metal Spallation Targets
2:00–2:20PM MST
Justin Weinmeister (ORNL), Elvis Dominguez-Ontiveros (ORNL)
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