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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
Standards Program
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August 2025
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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 THD
Wednesday, November 15, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EST|Columbia 10
Session Chairs:
SuJong Yoon (INL)
Prashant Jain (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Izabela Gutowska (OSU)
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Heat Transfer Model of Liquid Sodium Purification and Diagnostic System for Advanced Reactor Control Applications
1:00–1:20PM EST
Rita Appiah (Purdue), Alexander Heifetz (ANL), Derek Kultgen (ANL), Lefteri Tsoukalas (Purdue), Richard Vilim (ANL)
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Evaluation of Thermal Conductivity of Chamfer Cylinders in a Pebble Bed Mesh
1:20–1:40PM EST
Dezhi Dai (ANL), Haomin Yuan (ANL), Prasad Vegendla (ANL), Adrian Tentner (ANL)
Latest Developments in the MOOSE Fluid Properties Module
1:40–2:00PM EST
Guillaume L. Giudicelli (INL), Benjamin Spaude (INL), Steven Isaacs (INL), Alexander Lindsay (INL)
CANDU Fuel Channel Modeling in CTF Within the OECD-NEA Blind Benchmark on CANDU Thermal-Hydraulics
2:00–2:20PM EST
Daria Bolgova (NCSU), Agustin Abarca (NCSU), Xu Wu (NCSU), Maria Avramova (NCSU)
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