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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.
Robert Jeraj, Bogdan Glumac, Marko Maučec
Nuclear Technology | Volume 120 | Number 3 | December 1997 | Pages 179-187
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35409
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A Monte Carlo computer code MCNP4A simulation of the TRIGA Mark II benchmark experiment performed in 1992 is presented. It may be noted that this benchmark experiment is one of very few high-enrichment benchmarks available. To minimize errors due to an inexact geometry model, the TRIGA Mark II reactor core was very thoroughly modeled. All fresh fuel and control elements as well as the vicinity of the core were precisely described. MCNP4A input was prepared in such a way that any desired core configuration could be simulated easily. Continuous energy cross-section data from ENDF / B-VI and ENDF / B-V(for nat Cr, natFe, and natNi) libraries and S(α, β) scattering functions from the ENDF / B-IV library were used in our calculations. The differences between ENDF / B-VI and ENDF / B-V evaluations were examined on critical experiments. Most of the steady-state operation experiments were simulated, including two critical experiments, namely, measurements of the excess reactivity of the core, and the determination of control rod worths and fuel element reactivity worth distribution. Excellent agreement with the experimental results was observed.