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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE 2026)
Technical Session|3. Fusion Enabling Technologies
Monday, June 1, 2026|3:15–5:00PM MDT|Tower D
Session Chair:
Alyssa Hayes (ANS Congressional Fellow)
Alternate Chair:
Vittorio Badalassi (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Thomas Fuerst (INL)
Track Organizer:
Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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AI-Agent Driven Survey and Validated Literature Review for Discovering Solid Breeder Materials
3:15–3:25PM MDT
Jose Tupayachi (ORNL), Xueping Li (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Xiao-Ying Yu (ORNL)
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AI-Enhanced System Level Design and Optimization of Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) Power Plants using the Integrated Process Model (IPM)
3:25–3:35PM MDT
Mackenzie K. Nelson (LLNL), Justin Galbraith (LLNL), Bassem El-Dasher (LLNL), Derek Mariscal (LLNL)
FREDA-Agent: Enabling Natural-Language-Driven Design Studies in Fusion Workflows
3:35–3:45PM MDT
Katarzyna Borowiec (ORNL), Jin Whan Bae (ORNL), Vittorio Badalassi (ORNL), Cami Collins (ORNL)
A Physics-Informed State-Estimation Framework for Real-Time Tritium Accountancy using an Analog Circuit Testbed
3:45–3:55PM MDT
Shawn Macon (SRNL), Holly B. Flynn (SRNL)
The Modeling of Flat Linear Induction Pump for the Liquid Metal
3:55–4:05PM MDT
Jiarong Fang (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Andrei Khodak (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
Computing the Quantum Path to Commercial Fusion
4:05–4:15PM MDT
Laura L. Hermann (Rock Lake)
Incorporating AI Surrogate Modeling for Magnetohydrodynamic Flow Effects in Novel Blanket Design
4:15–4:25PM MDT
Yuqiao Fan (ORNL), Qian Gong (ORNL), Furkan Oz (ORNL), Marco G. Delchini (ORNL), Sergey Smolentsev (ORNL)
Neural Operator Surrogate Modeling of Bulk Fluid Dynamics in ARC-Class Tokamak Blankets
4:25–4:35PM MDT
Abetharan Antony (Zenithon Ai), Alex Higginbottom (Zenithon Ai), Chris Leffler (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Trevor Franklin (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Sierra Tutwiler (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
A Self-Supervised AI Method for the Modeling of Magnetohydrodynamics in Fusion Blanket Applications
4:35–4:45PM MDT
Eric Cervi (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL), Thanh Q. Hua (ANL), Ling Zou (ANL)
Multi-Objective Optimization of a Liquid Metal Heat Exchanger for Fusion Applications
4:45–4:55PM MDT
Kara A. Wilke (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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