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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.
Claude Prunier, François Boussard, Lothar Koch, Michel Coquerelle
Nuclear Technology | Volume 119 | Number 2 | August 1997 | Pages 141-148
Technical Paper | Enrichment and Reprocessing System | doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35382
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The results of nondestructive and destructive examination of the SUPERFACT 1 experiment carried out by both the Transuranium Institute (TUI) and the French Commissariat à I’Energie Atomique (CEA) are reported. This experiment aimed to study the behavior of fuels made up with neptunium or americium (from 2 wt% up to 45 wt% of heavy atoms) under irradiation in the Phénix French fast reactor (FR). Posttest examinations, jointly performed by the CEA and TUI, allowed comparison of this behavior with the standard oxide fuel reference. The experiment’s main results are reviewed. Then, the real interest in the FRs for a high rate of transmutation of actinides is examined, and also, some limitations are discussed.
