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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.
Akio Saikusa, Kazuhiko Kunitomi, Shusaku Shiozawa
Nuclear Technology | Volume 118 | Number 2 | May 1997 | Pages 89-96
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35370
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) program will be attractive to a broad range of owner / operators and meet public acceptance if the future HTGRs would be completely free from accidents, which cause a significant release of radioactivity into the environment. An advanced vessel cooling system concept, in which there is no heat loss in normal operation and the decay heat is removed by the natural circulation of air in an accident, is proposed for the High-Temperature Engineering Test Reactor to meet this requirement. The depressurization accident, one of the severest accidents of the HTGR, is selected and the analysis shows no significant core heatup. Applicability to the future HTGR is also investigated.
