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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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The deadline arrives: Checking in on the Reactor Pilot Program
On May 23, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14301, “Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the DOE,” which instructed the Department of Energy to create a Reactor Pilot Program (RPP)—a new system in which companies could pursue DOE authorization to build and test their first-of-a-kind nuclear technologies. EO 14301 set an ambitious goal for that program: three reactors achieving criticality by July 4, 2026.
Technical Session|Nuclear Criticality Safety
Friday, April 4, 2025|9:00–10:20AM MDT|Mirage/Thunderbird
Session Chair:
Matthew J. Lazaric
Alternate Chair:
Yuliia Trujillo
Session Organizer:
Ashley Machado
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LLNL Criticality Safety Handbook Project
9:00–9:20AM MDT
David A. Cerny (Univ. California, Berkeley), Alan Yamanaka (LLNL)
Paper
Simulated Pulsed Neutron Experiments of the Inherently Safe Subcritical Assembly
9:20–9:40AM MDT
Alessandro Ingegno (Univ. California, Berkeley), Daniel J. Siefman (Univ. California, Berkeley), William J. Zywiec (LLNL)
Explicit Modeling of B4C in Neutron Absorber Plates
9:40–10:00AM MDT
Eirena M. Klemes (NCSU)
Real-Time Neutron Source Localization Using the NoMAD Detector and Random Forest Regression
10:00–10:20AM MDT
Natalie L. Cannon (Georgia Tech), Nicholas W. Thompson (LANL), Jesson D. Hutchinson (LANL), Steven R. Biegalski (Georgia Tech), Anna S. Erickson (Georgia Tech), Mark Smith-Nelson (LANL)
