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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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Deployable Energy achieves criticality at INL
Ahead of the July 4 deadline set by President Trump in Executive Order 14301, the nuclear community has been following the developments of the Department of Energy’s Reactor Pilot Program, in which companies have been pursuing DOE authorization to build and test their first-of-a-kind nuclear technologies. The EO set an ambitious goal of three reactors achieving criticality by July 4, 2026.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Wednesday, November 16, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Sonoran 7
Session Chair:
Zeyun Wu (VCU)
Alternate Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Session Organizer:
Massimiliano Fratoni (UC Berkeley)
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Results of Nuclear Testing After Core Internals Changeout #6 in the Advanced Test Reactor
1:00–1:20PM MST
Nathan Manwaring (INL), Daren Norman (INL), Andrew Maile (INL)
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MSRE Reactivity Insertion Test Benchmark Using SAM
1:20–1:40PM MST
T. Fei (ANL), T. Hua (ANL), B. Feng (ANL)
Advances in the ROSA-BWR Core Design Optimization Code
1:40–2:00PM MST
Matteo Gamarino (NRG), Pieter H. Wakker (NRG), Jesper Kierkegaard (Vattenfall Nuclear Fuel)
A Review of the Status of the Evaluated Reactor Physics Benchmark Experiments Project
2:00–2:20PM MST
Mark D. DeHart (INL), John D. Bess (JFoster & Assoc.), Tatiana Ivanova (OECD NEA), Ian Hill (OECD NEA)
Quantitative Score for Benchmark Selection for Criticality Safety
2:20–2:40PM MST
Jeongwon Seo (Purdue), Hany Abdel-Khalik (Purdue)