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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.
Yuh-Ming Ferng, Yin-Pang Ma, Kuo-Tong Ma, Nien-Mien Chung
Nuclear Technology | Volume 126 | Number 3 | June 1999 | Pages 319-330
Technical Paper | Materials for Nuclear Systems | doi.org/10.13182/NT99-A2977
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Flow-assisted corrosion (FAC), an aspect of erosion/corrosion (E/C), is a mechanism of piping degradation that causes a loss of material from the inside of the piping and then thinning of the wall. FAC damage is believed to be accelerated by a single- or two-phase mixture flowing within the piping. A physical model is presented that attempts to predict the distributions of sites of FAC wear within the fitting; this model includes the E/C and the three-dimensional single- or two-phase-flow models. Based on the calculated results, the impact of centrifugal and gravitational forces on liquid droplet behavior can be reasonably simulated. Appropriate indicators derived from the E/C model are used to predict the FAC locations. Compared with the plant measured results, the proposed model can precisely predict the distribution of wear sites. The FAC pattern dominated by the upstream fittings can also be determined. The satisfactory agreement reveals that the indicators provided by the current models can be used to reasonably predict the FAC locations and explain the complicated phenomenon of FAC wear occurring within the fittings.