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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|4. Fusion Materials
Wednesday, June 3, 2026|1:15–3:00PM MDT|Tower B
Session Chair:
Radhika Barua (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Alyssa Hayes (ANS Congressional Fellow)
Session Organizer:
Thomas Fuerst (INL)
Track Organizer:
Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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Mechanical and Thermal Properties Evaluation of Lithium Ceramics as Solid Breeder Materials for Fusion Reactors
1:15–1:25PM MDT
Gabriel D. Parker (ORNL), Tobias Misicko (ORNL), Jacob Mohar (ORNL), Josina W. Geringer (ORNL), Beth Armstrong (ORNL), Xiao-Ying Yu (ORNL)
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Modeling Tritium Transport through Evolving Microstructure and Conditions in Fusion Materials using TMAP8
1:25–1:35PM MDT
Monica Gehrig (ORNL), Paul W. Humrickhouse (Type One Energy)
Comprehensive Meta-Analysis of Vanadium Data for Fusion: Neutron Irradiation Effects on Tensile Properties
1:35–1:45PM MDT
Andrea Lehn-Bradshaw (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Amit Behera (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Trevor Clark (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Alicia M. Elliott (MIT), Michael P. Short (MIT), Lauren M. Garrison (Commonwealth Fusion Systems)
Influence of Alloying, Doping, and Thermomechanical Processing on the Mechanical and Irradiation Behavior of Tungsten
1:45–1:55PM MDT
Carson Hester (Univ. North Texas), Vijay Vasudevan (Univ. North Texas), Lauren M. Garrison (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Blake Emad (Univ. North Texas), Sundeep Mukherjee (Univ. North Texas), Tirthesh Ingale (Univ. North Texas), Priyanka Agrawal (Univ. North Texas), Mohin Sharma (Univ. North Texas), Bibhudutta Rout (Univ. North Texas), Siva Shankar (Univ. North Texas)
Status of Tungsten-Based Materials and Related Technologies for Future Fusion Devices
1:55–2:05PM MDT
Shuhei Nogami (A.L.M.T. Corp.), Naoya Matsuta (A.L.M.T. Corp.), Kei Miura (A.L.M.T. Corp.), Shuho Obata (A.L.M.T. Corp.), Yasutaka Hinata (A.L.M.T. Corp.), Makoto Watanabe (A.L.M.T. Corp.), Takanori Kadokura (A.L.M.T. Corp.), Seiji Nakabayashi (A.L.M.T. Corp.), Shigekazu Yamazaki (A.L.M.T. Corp.), Tomohiro Takida (A.L.M.T. Corp.)
Development of Radiation Shielding Materials of Tungsten-Boron-Carbon System
2:05–2:15PM MDT
Shuhei Nogami (A.L.M.T. Corp.), Naoya Matsuta (A.L.M.T. Corp.), Kei Miura (A.L.M.T. Corp.), Seiji Nakabayashi (A.L.M.T. Corp.), Makoto Watanabe (A.L.M.T. Corp.), Shigekazu Yamazaki (A.L.M.T. Corp.)
E-beam Damage Assessment Digital Twin for the Material Plasma Exposure eXperiment (MPEX) Plasma-facing Materials
2:15–2:25PM MDT
Rinkle Juneja (ORNL)
Sintering and Mechanical Strength of Architected Tritium Breeding Materials
2:25–2:35PM MDT
Christian Bustillos (LLNL), Harry Charalambous (LLNL), Luke Van Buuren (LLNL), Bassem El Dasher (LLNL)
Powder-Metallurgy Hot Isostatic Pressing of V-4Cr-4Ti Alloys for Fusion First-wall/Blanket Applications
2:35–2:45PM MDT
Adam Jackson (University of Birmingham), Moataz Attallah (Loughborough Univ.), Sam Cruchley (University of Birmingham), Michael Parsons (Manufacturing Technology Centre), Arunodaya Bhattacharya (University of Birmingham)
Investigating the DPA Discrepancy Between SiC and Iron Under Multiple Neutron Spectra
2:45–2:55PM MDT
Jiankai Yu (MIT), Lance L. Snead (Stony Brook Univ.), Jaime Marian (Univ. California, Los Angeles), Ethan E. Peterson (MIT)
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