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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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Launching into tomorrow: NRIC guides new era of research and deployment
In June 2025, the Department of Energy announced the Reactor Pilot Program, an authorization pathway that allowed reactor developers to partner with the DOE to get first-of-a-kind (FOAK) reactors built and tested. Soon after, the DOE rolled out a complementary Fuel Line Pilot Program, which aimed to fast-track fuel projects. In all, 20 projects were accepted into the new programs.
International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference
Technical Session
Thursday, November 17, 2022|8:00–9:45AM MST|Kaibab
Session Chair:
Styliani Pantopoulou (Purdue)
Alternate Chair:
Sven Bader (Orano)
Session Organizer:
Brady D. Hanson
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Using Cosmic Ray Muons to Assess Geological Characteristics in the Subsurface
8:00–8:20AM MST
H.R. Gadey (PNNL), R. Howard (PNNL), S.C. Tognini (ORNL), J.L. Meszaros (ORNL), R. Montgomery (ORNL), S. Chatzidakis (Purdue), J. Bae (Purdue), R. Clark (U.S. Dept. of Energy)
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Frequency Response Function Based Damage Detection of Spent Nuclear Fuel Canisters
8:20–8:40AM MST
Mehrdad Aghagholizadeh (Univ. Southern California), Bora Gencturk (Univ. Southern California), Roger Ghanem (Univ. Southern California), Anna Arcaro (Univ. Southern California)
Fusion of Distributed Fiber Optics, Acoustic NDE for Spent Fuel Monitoring Towards Physics-Informed Machine Learning
8:40–9:00AM MST
Pengdi Zhang (Univ. Pittsburgh), Abhishek Venketeswaran (National Energy Technology Laboratory), Ruishu F. Wright (National Energy Technology Laboratory), Ryan M. Meyer (PNNL), Paul R. Ohodnicki (Univ. Pittsburgh)
Monitoring Spent Nuclear Fuel in a Dry Cask Using Momentum Integrated Muon Scattering Tomography
9:00–9:20AM MST
Junghyun Bae (Purdue), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue)
Remote Area Modular Monitoring for Nuclear Facilities
9:20–9:40AM MST
B. Craig (ANL), K. Byrne (ANL), Y.Y. Liu (ANL), M. Hoover (Embedded Planet)