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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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DOE launches UPRISE to boost nuclear capacity
The Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy has launched a new initiative to meet the government’s goal of increasing U.S. nuclear energy capacity by boosting the power output of existing nuclear reactors through uprates and restarts and by completing stalled reactor projects.
UPRISE, the Utility Power Reactor Incremental Scaling Effort, managed by Idaho National Laboratory, is to “deliver immediate results that will accelerate nuclear power growth and foster innovation to address the nation’s urgent energy needs,” DOE-NE said in its announcement.
Technical Session|Sponsored by ANSTD
Monday, June 16, 2025|1:00–2:45PM CDT|Chicago Ballroom C
Session Chair:
Dianne Ezell (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Robert O'Brien (USRA)
Session Organizer:
Jeffrey C. King
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CR-39 Nuclear Track Detector Responses and Aviation Route Dose Calculations
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Kah-Yeen Lim (Nat'l Tsing Hua Univ.), Zi-Yi Yang (INER), Rong-Jiun Sheu (Nat'l Tsing Hua Univ.)
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Criticality Assessment of a Lightweight HALEU & HEU-fueled NTP System
1:20–1:40PM CDT
Jonah Lau (Purdue Univ.), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue Univ.), Adrian Tymes (CubeCab)
Impact of Real Gas Properties on Multiphysics Modeling of a Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Fuel Element
1:40–2:00PM CDT
Corey D. Smith (AMA), Jacob Stonehill (AMA)
Experimental Study of an Interstellar Fusion Propulsion Architecture
2:00–2:20PM CDT
Gerald P. Jackson (Hbar Technologies), Grace E. Bittlingmaier (Beam Alpha Inc.)
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