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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.
Shekhar Kumar, S. B. Koganti
Nuclear Technology | Volume 126 | Number 2 | May 1999 | Pages 237-239
Technical Note | Reprocessing | doi.org/10.13182/NT99-A2971
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Tri-n-butyl phosphate (TBP) is an excellent industrial solvent for metal extraction in the nuclear chemical industry. It is also being used as a major constituent of hydraulic fluids in the aircraft industry and other industrial applications. Risk assessment studies demand limiting of airborne concentration of TBP during normal as well as accidental exposure to humans, as the toxicity index for TBP is quite high. Published data on TBP vapor pressure has been analyzed, and an empirical equation is reported for the temperature range of 273.15 to 562.15 K. The performance of the reported equation is compared with the correlations available in the literature.
