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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
Standards Program
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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 RPD
Wednesday, November 15, 2023|8:00–9:45AM EST|Cabinet
Session Chair:
Abdalla Abou-Jaoude
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni
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Spatially Resolved Thermochemistry with Chemical Species Tracking in Molten Salt Reactors
8:00–8:20AM EST
Samuel A. Walker (INL), Parikshit Bajpai (INL), Daniel Schwen (INL), Mauricio Tano (INL), Abdalla Abou-Jaoude (INL)
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CNRS Molten Salt Reactor Benchmark Analysis Using Griffin-Pronghorn Coupled Multi-Physics Code System
8:20–8:40AM EST
Namjae Choi (INL), Mustafa Jaradat (INL), Abdalla Abou Jaoude (INL)
SAM Model of the HTTF in the Virtual Test Bed
8:40–9:00AM EST
Thanh Hua (ANL), Ling Zou (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL)
Natural Convection CFD Modeling of a Microreactor Air Jacket
9:00–9:20AM EST
Anshuman Chaube (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), April Novak (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Dillon Shaver (ANL), Caleb Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Recent and Upcoming Microreactor Models Submission in the VTB
9:20–9:40AM EST
Nicolas E. Stauff (ANL), Yinbin Miao (ANL), Ahmed Abdelhameed (ANL), Nick Fassino (ANL), Yan Cao (ANL), Kun Mo (ANL), Lander Ibarra (ANL), Daniel Nunez (ANL), Emily Shemon (ANL)
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