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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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FERC decision on Crane restart coming in June or July, Constellation execs say
In a first quarter earnings call Monday, executives at Constellation said they should know in June or July the status of a request to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to transfer capacity interconnection rights from the company’s Eddystone gas- and-oil-powered plant in Pennsylvania to Crane nuclear power plant (formerly Three Mile Island-1).
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE 2026)
Technical Session|4. Fusion Materials
Wednesday, June 3, 2026|3:15–5:00PM MDT|Tower C
Session Chair:
Andrea Lehn-Bradshaw (Commonwealth Fusion Systems)
Alternate Chair:
Yuqiao (Joy) Fan (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Thomas Fuerst (INL)
Track Organizer:
Lane Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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Evaluation of Ceramic First-Wall Material Candidates for Magneto-Inertial Fusion Generators
3:15–3:35PM MDT
Luca Cappelli (Oak Ridge Associated Univs.), Tessa Van Volkenburg (Helion Energy), Ria Meston (Helion Energy)
Paper
Evaluation of Bulk W-Ti Alloys Under Thermal and Deuterium Plasma Extremes
3:35–3:55PM MDT
Eric J. Lang (Univ. New Mexico)
Recrystallization Analysis of the Helium-Cooled Tungsten T-tube Divertor
3:55–4:15PM MDT
Michael L. Lanahan (SciTec), James P. Blanchard (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Said I. Abdel-Khalik (Georgia Tech), Minami Yoda (Michigan State)
Materials Development Progress for the First ARC™ Fusion Power Plant
4:15–4:35PM MDT
Lauren M. Garrison (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Amit Behera (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Trevor Clark (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Cody Dennett (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Andrea Lehn-Bradshaw (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Xiang Chen (ORNL), Jaime Marian (Univ. California, Los Angeles), Michael P. Short (MIT), Vijay Vasudevan (Univ. North Texas), Gary S. Was (Univ. Michigan), Brian D. Wirth (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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