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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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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 NCSD|Cosponsored by NNPD
Wednesday, November 16, 2022|8:00–9:45AM MST|Copperwood
Session Chair:
Kristan Wessels
Alternate Chair:
David G. Erickson
Session Organizer:
Theresa E. Cutler
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Generating Models of the Flattop Critical Assembly for Benchmark Experiments with Python
8:00–8:20AM MST
A. Hauck (LANL), K. Stolte (LANL), T. Grove (LANL), N. Whitman (LANL), T. Cutler (LANL), R. Sanchez (LANL), J. Lamproe (LANL), D. Hayes (LANL)
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Modeling Approach to Critical in the Upcoming CERBERUS Experiment
8:20–8:40AM MST
Zachariah Lemke (LANL), Kelsey Amundson (LANL), Theresa Cutler (LANL), Nicholas Whitman (LANL)
Hybrid Particle Swarm-Interpolation Algorithm for Improved Critical Experiment Design
8:40–9:00AM MST
Cole Kostelac (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Nicholas Thompson (LANL), Ayodeji Alajo (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Noah Kleedtke (LANL), Rene Sanchez (LANL)
Rossi-Alpha Analysis of Thermal/Epithermal eXperiments Optimized for Polyethylene Thermal Neutron Scattering
9:00–9:20AM MST
Caiser A. Bravo (LANL), Jesson D. Hutchinson (LANL), George E. McKenzie (LANL), Theresa E. Cutler (LANL), Travis J. Grove (LANL), Alex McSpaden (LANL), Rene G. Sanchez (LANL)
Prompt Neutron Decay Constant Measurements at the Inherently Safe Subcritical Assembly
9:20–9:40AM MST
Daniel Siefman (LLNL), W. Zywiec (LLNL), S. Varghese (LLNL), O. Pakari (Univ. Michigan), David Heinrichs (LLNL)
Presented by Ruby Araj (LLNL)
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