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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Startup looks to commercialize inertial fusion energy
Another startup hoping to capitalize on progress the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has made in realizing inertial fusion energy has been launched. On August 27, San Francisco–based Inertia Enterprises, a private fusion power start-up, announced the formation of the company with the goal of commercializing fusion energy.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Monday, November 13, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EST|Jefferson West
Session Chair:
L. Vergari
Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey
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Measuring Viscosity of Molten Salts Using Laser Video Holography
1:00–1:20PM EST
Hayden S. Bland (NCSU), Alexander W. Bataller (NCSU)
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Investigating the Thermal Conductivity of Molten Salts Using Thermoreflectance
1:20–1:40PM EST
Syed Muhammad Mujtaba Rizvi (NCSU), Alexander W. Bataller (NCSU)
High-Throughput Prediction of Molten Salt Mixture Density with Supervised Machine Learning
1:40–2:00PM EST
Julián Barra Otondo (Univ. Massachusetts, Lowell), Shayan Shahbazi (ANL), Tyler Starkus (ANL), Anthony Birri (ORNL), Simone Audesse (Univ. Massachusetts, Lowell), Prasanna Balaprakash (ORNL), Rajni Chahal (Univ. Massachusetts, Lowell), Stephen Lam (Univ. Massachusetts, Lowell)
Sources of Error in the Measurement of Thermophysical Properties of Molten Salts
2:00–2:20PM EST
D. Nathanael Gardner (Univ. California, Berkeley), Maximilien Denis (Univ. California, Berkeley), Zachary Falkowski (Univ. California, Berkeley), L. Vergari (Univ. California, Berkeley), Raluca O. Scarlat (Univ. California, Berkeley)
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