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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|10. Special Sessions
Monday, June 1, 2026|3:15–5:00PM MDT|Grand Ballroom 2
Session Chair:
Matteo Barbarino (IAEA)
Alternate Chair:
Yongqiang Wang (LANL)
Track Organizer:
Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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IAEA Fusion Technology Development and Deployment Framework
3:15–3:35PM MDT
Ryan Wagner (IAEA)
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Leveraging Public-Private Partnership for Fusion Workforce Development
3:35–3:55PM MDT
Yuqiao Fan (ORNL), Louise Ferris (ORNL), Monica Gehrig (ORNL), Rinkle Juneja (ORNL), Arnold Lumsdaine (ORNL)
Another World is Possible: Integrating Competition and Collaboration to Advance Fusion Critical Technologies
3:55–4:15PM MDT
Javier f. Serrano MartÃnez (Fusion for Energy)
Updated EPRI Fusion Owner-Operator Requirements to Inform Technology Commercialization and Deployment: Preliminary Results
4:15–4:35PM MDT
Diana Grandas (EPRI), Andrew G. Sowder (EPRI)
Looking Back to Move Forward: The Legacy of Compact, High-field Fusion Experiments in Anticipation of Public Perception of Fusion Machines
4:35–4:55PM MDT
Haley Williams (MIT), Bruno Coppi (MIT)
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