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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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U.S. nuclear supply chain: Ready for liftoff
Craig Piercycpiercy@ans.org
This month, September 8–11, the American Nuclear Society is teaming up with the Nuclear Energy Institute to host our first-ever Nuclear Energy Conference and Expo—NECX for short—in Atlanta. This new meeting combines ANS’s Utility Working Conference and NEI’s Nuclear Energy Assembly to form what NEI CEO Maria Korsnick and I hope will be the premier nuclear industry gathering in America.
We did this because after more than four decades of relative stagnation, the U.S. nuclear supply chain is finally entering a new era of dynamic growth. This resurgence is being driven by several powerful and increasingly durable forces: the explosive demand for electricity from artificial intelligence and data centers, an unprecedented wave of public and private acceptance of—and investment in—advanced nuclear technologies, and a strong market signal for reliable, on-demand power. Add the recent Trump administration executive orders on nuclear into the mix, and you have all the makings of an accelerant-rich business environment primed for rapid expansion.
Per Lindén, Gudmar Grosshög, Imre Pázsit
Nuclear Technology | Volume 124 | Number 1 | October 1998 | Pages 31-51
Technical Paper | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT98-A2907
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Flow measurements were performed with pulsed-neutron activation (PNA) in a specially designed test loop. A stationary neutron generator was used as a neutron source, and the detection of the induced 16N activity in the flow was performed by two bismuth germanate detectors. Stable flow could be produced in the loop and measured with high precision (~0.5% error) by a scale and a stopwatch method, concurrent with the PNA measurement. A series of measurements have been made by varying the position of the detectors, the flow velocity, etc. The accuracy of the various time-averaging methods that are used in the evaluation of the PNA measurement could be assessed by a comparison with the flow calibration data. In particular, the dependence of the error of the different PNA evaluation methods as functions of detector spacing and flow velocity was determined. The measurements are part of a program that seeks to develop a flowmeter suitable for practical applications, which will include backing up the method with flow calculation and signal-processing methods such as neural networks for off-line calibration of the equipment.