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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 NNPD
Wednesday, November 16, 2022|3:15–5:00PM MST|Bougainvillea
Session Chair:
C. E. (Gene) Carpenter, Jr.
Alternate Chair:
James W. Behrens
Session Organizer:
Stefani Buster
Three summaries will be presented in this Technology and Policy Advancements in Nuclear Nonproliferation session and then the Fusion session will follow immediately. Three additional summaries will be presented in the Fusion session.
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A Method for Semi-Automated Point Cloud to Watertight Mesh Conversion for Rapid MCNP Input File Generation of Indoor Scenes
3:15–3:35PM MST
Christopher Greulich (ORNL), Mathew Swinney (ORNL), Daniel E. Archer (ORNL), Mark S. Bandstra (LBNL), Marco Salathe (LBNL), Brian J. Quiter (LBNL)
Paper
Optimization of a Dynamic Single Bubbler in Immiscible Fluids for Nuclear Safeguards Applications
3:35–3:55PM MST
Ammon N. Williams (INL), Tae-Sic Yoo (INL), Anthony Bessler (INL)
Comparative Effects of Radiation Sterilization Modality on Medical PVC Tubing
3:55–4:15PM MST
Leonard S. Fifield (PNNL), Donghui Li (PNNL)
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