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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.
Galina Chabratova, Lars Leistam
Nuclear Technology | Volume 124 | Number 2 | November 1998 | Pages 183-191
Technical Paper | Accelerators | doi.org/10.13182/NT98-A2918
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Estimates are presented of the radiation environment for POINT2 of the Large Hadron Collider, where the ALICE detector is to be located. The radiation environment is studied in terms of two points of accidental beam losses. The dose level in the region of the counting rooms is lower than the recommended CERN limit of 50 mSv. The radiation level behind the access shielding at the air-duct chicane is not higher than 10 mSv; this area is also appropriated for use as a public area. A more complicated situation is in the machine bypass region. The dose level in the tunnel is a few hundred millisieverts, and a decrease of this level could be achieved by increasing the thickness of the wall or the beam pipe shielding.
