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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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The progress so far: An update on the Reactor Pilot Program
It has been about three months since the Department of Energy named 10 companies for its new Reactor Pilot Program, which maps out how the DOE would meet the goal announced by executive order in May of having three reactors achieve criticality by July 4, 2026.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Jasmine C
Session Chair:
Caleb Massey (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey (Oregon State)
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Low-Pressure and Fluidized-Bed Chemical Vapor Deposition of PyC and ZrC for Space Nuclear Propulsion
1:00–1:20PM PDT
Eddie Lopez-Honorato (ORNL), Tyler J. Gerczak (ORNL), Ryan Heldt (ORNL), Grant W. Helmreich (ORNL), Katherine Montoya (ORNL), Peter Doyle (ORNL), William F. Cureton (ORNL), John D. Hunn (ORNL)
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Progress Toward In Situ Tempered, Additively Manufactured Ferritic-Martensitic Steels
1:20–1:40PM PDT
C.R. Lear (LANL), T.J. Lienert (Optomec), S.A. Maloy (PNNL)
Counterfeit Prevention Using Thermal Imaging for Binder-Jet Printed Parts
1:40–2:00PM PDT
James Oti (Univ. Pittsburgh), Ryan Wassel (Univ. Pittsburgh), Jung-Kun Lee (Univ. Pittsburgh), Nikhil Bajaj (Univ. Pittsburgh)
Development of a Hastelloy N-Based ODS Alloy Through Laser Powder-Bed Fusion (LPBF) Additive Manufacturing (AM)
2:00–2:20PM PDT
Ertugrul Demir (NCSU), Fedi Fehri (NCSU), Matt DeJong (NCSU), Sourabh Saptarshi (NCSU), Tim Horn (NCSU), Djamel Kaoumi (NCSU)
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