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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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No impact from Savannah River radioactive wasps
The news is abuzz with recent news stories about four radioactive wasp nests found at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The site has been undergoing cleanup operations since the 1990s related to the production of plutonium and tritium for defense purposes during the Cold War. Cleanup activities are expected to continue into the 2060s.
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fusion Energy Division
Wednesday, November 16, 2022|3:15–5:00PM MST|Bougainvillea
Session Chair:
Pierre-Clément A. Simon
Alternate Chair:
Paul P. Wilson
Session Organizer:
Paul W. Humrickhouse
This Fusion session will be preceded by the Technology and Policy Advancements in Nuclear Nonproliferation session, in which three summaries will be presented. Please see below for times for the Fusion presentations.
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Optimization of Simplified Affordable, Robust, Compact Reactor Designs with FERMI
4:15–4:35PM MST
Jack Fletcher (MIT), Jin Whan Bae (ORNL), Arpan Sircar (ORNL), Katarzyna Borowiec (ORNL), Vittorio Badalassi (ORNL)
Paper
Evaluation of Variance Reduction Techniques for Deep Penetrations in Fusion Neutronics Simulations
4:35–4:55PM MST
Andrea A. Saltos (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Ethan Peterson (MIT), Dominic Napolitano (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Ryanne Kennedy (MPR Assoc.), Andrew Hodgdon (Commonwealth Fusion Systems)
Multiphysics Code Coupling for Fusion Blankets
4:55–5:15PM MST
Arpan Sircar (ORNL), Katarzyna Borowiec (ORNL), Jin Whan Bae (ORNL), Jerome Solberg (LLNL), Vittorio Badalassi (ORNL)
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