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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 FED
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|8:00–9:45AM CDT|Los Angeles
Session Chair:
Pierre-Clement A. Simon
Alternate Chair:
Paul W. Humrickhouse
Session Organizer:
Thomas Fuerst
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Benchmark Interatomic Potentials for Fusion Materials Applications
8:00–8:20AM CDT
Mianzhen Mo (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Umang Agarwal (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Zhijiang Chen (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Mungo Frost (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Edna R. Toro (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Nicholas Hartley (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Fuhao Ji (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Benjamin Ofori-Okai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Silvia Pandolfi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Alexander Reid (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Eric Sung (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Peihao Sun (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Xiaozhe Shen (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Katie Wootten (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Ling Wang (SLAC Nat'l Accelerator Lab), Siegfried Glenzer (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Xijie Wang (University of Duisburg-Essen), Klaus Sokolowski-Tinten (University of Duisburg-Essen), Yongqiang Wang (LANL), Peter Hosemann (Univ. California, Berkeley), Weicheng Zhong (ORNL), Erki Metsanurk (Uppsala University), Artur Tamm (University of Tartu), Alfredo A. Correa (LLNL)
Paper
Decay-Activation Analysis of Reduced Activation Ferritic Martensitic Steel In Fusion Reactors
8:20–8:40AM CDT
Ishita Trivedi (INL), Nicolas E. Woolstenhulme (INL), Hanns Gietl (INL), Michael Moorehead (INL), Alexander L. Swearingen (INL), Katie Hawkins (INL), Tommy Holschuh (INL), Michael Reichenberger (INL), Kevin Tsai (INL)
Tritium Breeding Blanket Testing with an Intense DT Neutron Source
8:40–9:00AM CDT
Ross F. Radel (SHINE Technologies, LLC), Lucas Jacobson (SHINE Technologies), Mark Gilbert (UK Atomic Energy Authority), Rob Bamber (UK Atomic Energy Authority)
Demonstration of Proton-Boron Fusion in a Helicon-Assisted Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Device
9:00–9:20AM CDT
Erik P. Ziehm (University of Illinois), Rohan Puri (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), George H. Miley (University of Illinois)
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