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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|2. Fusion Fuel Cycle Technologies
Tuesday, June 2, 2026|10:15AM–12:00PM MDT|Tower C
Session Chair:
Thomas Fuerst (INL)
Session Organizer:
Lane Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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CoRExt and Direct LiT Electrolysis for Blanket Tritium Extraction
10:15–10:35AM MDT
Luke Olson (SRNL), Christopher Dandeneau (SRNL), Thomas Volta (SRNL), Adam Gootgeld (SRNL), Andrew Zimmerman (SRNL), Grace Carvo (SRNL), Brenda Garcia-Diaz (SRNL)
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Tritium Permeation from Self-cooled and Separately-cooled Blanket Concepts
10:35–10:55AM MDT
Paul W. Humrickhouse (Type One Energy)
On the Reactivity of Inert Gases for Hydrogen Superpermeation
10:55–11:15AM MDT
Vitor A. Camacho (Colorado School of Mines), Caroline Hufnagel (Colorado School of Mines), J. Douglas Way (Colorado School of Mines), Colin A. Wolden (Colorado School of Mines)
Preliminary Testing of an Impurity Removal Method for the Cryogenic Direct Internal Recycling Concept
11:15–11:35AM MDT
Trey E. Gebhart (ORNL), Nirajan Adhikari (ORNL), L.R. Baylor (ORNL)
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