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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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NECX debut: Shaping the next era of energy
The sold-out inaugural Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX) got off to a roaring start in Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday morning with an opening plenary that was a live highlight reel discussing the latest industry achievements.
Starting with a lively promo video that left the audience amped up for Entergy’s CEO and NEI chair Drew Marsh, who welcomed everyone to the event, hosted jointly by the American Nuclear Society and the Nuclear Energy Institute. He spoke to a full house of more than 1,300 attendees, promising a blend of science, technology, policy, and advocacy centered around the future of nuclear energy.
Sunil Kumar Jatav, Vijay Kumar Pandey, Parimal P. Kulkarni, Arun K. Nayak, Upender Pandel, Rajendra K. Duchaniya
Nuclear Technology | Volume 208 | Number 11 | November 2022 | Pages 1756-1768
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2022.2061291
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
To mitigate severe accidents in nuclear reactors, the present research sheds light on the melt-coolability behavior of corium with hypothetical experiments that have been performed at two different nozzle diameters under bottom flooding conditions. In this research, a simulant material CaO-Fe2O3 powder mixture was melted and poured into the test section that was embedded in the test facility (using a bottom pouring furnace instead of a tiltable furnace). Then, from the bottom of the melt pool, water was flooded through a nozzle at a pressure of 0.70 bar and a water flow rate of 12 liters per minute. Because of the interaction between the water and melt, the melt quenched and converted into fine porous debris, and the temperature history was recorded using 12 K-type thermocouples connected to a data acquisition system. The average quenching time and porosity of the debris were affected by variations in the nozzle diameter. This research will help in understanding real core-melt accidents that generally occur in nuclear power plants.