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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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The predawn darkness on a cool Florida night was shattered by the ignition of nine Merlin engines on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The thrust of the engines shook the ground miles away. From a distance, the rocket appeared to slowly rise above the horizon. For the cargo onboard, the launch was anything but gentle, as the ignition of liquid oxygen generated more than 1.5 million pounds of force. After the rocket had been out of sight for several minutes, the booster dramatically returned to Earth with several sonic booms in a captivating show of engineering designed to make space travel less expensive and more sustainable.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE 2026)
Technical Session|7. Magnetic Fusion Energy Technology and Engineering
Tuesday, June 2, 2026|10:15AM–12:00PM MDT|Tower B
Session Chair:
Pierre-Clément Simon
Alternate Chair:
Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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Development, Demonstration, and Deployment of Open-Source Multiphysics Capabilities for Fusion System Modeling in SALAMANDER
10:15–10:35AM MDT
Pierre-Clement A. Simon (INL), Casey T. Icenhour (INL), Masashi Shimada (INL), Guillaume Giudicelli (INL), Logan H. Harbour (INL), Lin Yang (INL), Helen M. Brooks (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), Mahmoud Eltawila (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), April J. Novak (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Grayson S. Gall (NCSU), Amanda Lietz (NCSU), Trevor Franklin (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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Three-Dimensional Computational Analysis of a Liquid-Lithium Divertor Experiment
10:35–10:55AM MDT
Deepa Gupta (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Andrei Khodak (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Anatoliy Vorobev (Tokamak Energy), Sergey Smolentsev (ORNL), Daniel Suarez (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Daniel O’Dea (Tokamak Energy), George Stoneham (Tokamak Energy), Andrew Shone (Tokamak Energy)
Magnetohydrodynamic Analysis of Liquid Lithium Divertor Experiment
10:55–11:15AM MDT
Andrei Khodak (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Deepa Gupta (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Javier Garcia Dominguez (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Anatoliy Vorobev (Tokamak Energy), Sergey Smolentsev (ORNL), Daniel Suarez Cambra (ORNL), Daniel O. O'Dea (Tokamak Energy), George Stoneham (Tokamak Energy), Andrew Shone (Tokamak Energy)
Lithium Diffusion Pump Divertor
11:15–11:35AM MDT
Andrei Khodak (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Eric Emdee (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Rajesh Maingi (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), David M. McComas (Princeton Univ.)
Conjugate Heat Transfer Simulations of a Tungsten Divertor Coolant Channel with Tight-Fitting Twisted Tape Inserts using FLiBe Coolant
11:35–11:55AM MDT
Sierra Tutwiler (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Trevor Franklin (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Dillon R. Shaver (ANL), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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