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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 RPD
Wednesday, November 16, 2022|3:15–5:00PM MST|Sonoran 7
Session Chair:
Friederike Bostelmann (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Session Organizer:
Massimiliano Fratoni (UC Berkeley)
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JOYO Benchmark Evaluation of the Advanced Reactor Modeling Interface
3:15–3:35PM MST
Michael Huang (TerraPower), Barry Mingst (TerraPower), Zhiwen Xu (TerraPower)
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Size-Dependent Neutronic Optimization of Ultra-Long-Life Molten Salt and Metal Reactors (MSMR)
3:35–3:55PM MST
Eunhyug Lee (KAIST), Taesuk Oh (KAIST), Seongdong Jang (KAERI), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
A Study on Control Algorithm for Daily Load-Follow Operation in the APR1400 Reactor
3:55–4:15PM MST
Husam Khalefih (KAIST), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
A Method for Critical Control System Configuration Search when Using Monte Carlo Neutronics Codes
4:15–4:35PM MST
Dean Price (Univ. Michigan), Nathan Roskoff (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
Highlights of Neutronics Analyses for the Pre-Conceptual NIST Neutron Source Design
4:35–4:55PM MST
Osman S. Celikten (NIST Center for Neutron Research), Dagistan Sahin (NIST Center for Neutron Research), Abdullah G. Weiss (NIST Center for Neutron Research)
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