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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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ANS’s Mentor Match applications open
Applications are now open for the American Nuclear Society’s newly redesigned mentoring program. Mentor Match is a unique opportunity available only to ANS members that offers year-round mentorship and networking opportunities to Society members at any point in their education.
The deadline to apply for membership in the inaugural summer cohort, which will take place July 1–August 31, is June 20. The application form can be found here.
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), Matthew Ricks (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), Siegfried Glenzer (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Xijie Wang (University of Duisburg-Essen), Klaus Sokolowski-Tinten (University of Duisburg-Essen), Yongqiang Wang (LANL), Peter Hosemann (University of California, Berkeley), Weicheng Zhong (ORNL), Erki Metsanurk (Uppsala University), Artur Tamm (University of Tartu), Alfredo A. Correa (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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)
Silicon-Based Chemical Vapor Deposition Coatings as Tritium Permeation Barriers
8:40–9:00AM CDT
Thomas Fuerst (INL), Chase N. Taylor (INL), Masashi Shimada (INL)
Tritium Breeding Blanket Testing with an Intense DT Neutron Source
9:00–9:20AM 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
9:20–9:40AM 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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