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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|3:15–5:00PM MST|Sonoran 6
Session Chair:
Trevor Kent Howard
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Marilyn Delgado
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Natural Circulation Experiments in Gallium Thermal-Hydraulic Loop
3:15–3:35PM MST
Broderick Sieh (Purdue), Hitesh Bindra (Purdue)
Paper
Flow Visualization in a Flow Conditioner to Support PEPT Experiments of Advanced Reactor Components
3:35–3:55PM MST
Jerel Houston (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Cody S. Wiggins (ORNL), Arturo Cabral (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Adam Mafi (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Design and Preliminary Understanding of Flow in Pebble Bed Reactors Using Positron Emission Particle Tracking
3:55–4:15PM MST
Adam Mafi (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Cody Wiggins (ORNL), Arturo Cabral (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Jerel Houston (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), L.B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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