Poster Session

Sensitivity of Shutdown Dose-Rates to Irradiation History Assumptions

3:15–3:16PM MDT

Nikolas Nelson (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Son N. Quang (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), G. Ivan Maldonado (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)

Feasibility Study of D-T Fusion for Medical-Isotope Production

3:16–3:17PM MDT

Ana Jambrina (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)

Predicting Plasma Shape in MAST Reactor Data using Machine Learning

3:17–3:18PM MDT

Lucas A. Hammermeister (Univ. Michigan), Zachary A. Fusinski (ORNL)

Design Modification Techniques for Torque Mitigation of Electromagnetically Actuated Valves for the ITER Disruption Mitigation System

3:18–3:19PM MDT

Zachary A. Fusinski (ORNL), Trey E. Gebhart (ORNL)

Open-Source Pulse Design Capabilities, Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification for Fusion Pilot Plants

3:19–3:20PM MDT

Andrew Nelson (Columbia Univ.), John Lhota (Johns Hopkins Univ.), Christopher J. Hansen (Columbia Univ.), Freddie Sheehan (Columbia Univ.), Carlos A. Paz-Soldan (Columbia Univ.)

From Data to Design: Experimental Baselines for Metal Hydride Storage Beds Under Fusion-Relevant Cycling

3:20–3:21PM MDT

Vicky Lizardi-Lobb (LANL), Victoria Hypes-Mayfield (LANL), Joseph H. Dumont (LANL)

Operational Experience with a Deuterium–Tritium Gas Handling System for Beamline Experiments

3:21–3:22PM MDT

Elena Koukina (Acceleron), Ara Knaian (Acceleron), Robert Shmayda (NSSI), Kaylee McCormack (Acceleron), Cody Fagan (Torion Techologies), Michael W. Koch (Torion Techologies), Walter Shmayda (Tritium Solutions)

A Scale-Down Study of the Snail Pump using Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Modeling

3:22–3:23PM MDT

Nirajan Adhikari (ORNL), Trey E. Gebhart (ORNL), L.R. Baylor (ORNL)

Effect of Terminal Straight Sections on Cryogenic Pellet Dispersion in Curved Guidetubes

3:23–3:24PM MDT

Celeste Lamadrid (Columbia Univ.), Steven Meitner (ORNL)

CFD Conjugate Heat Transfer Simulations of Supercritical Helium Cooling of the ITER Single-Screw Pellet Extruder

3:24–3:25PM MDT

Ying Xu (ORNL), Steven Meitner (ORNL), Dean McGinnis (ORNL), Sarah E. Smith (ORNL)

An Open-Source Computational Framework for Coupled Thermal-Hydraulic and Tritium Transport Analysis in Fusion Heat Exchangers

3:25–3:26PM MDT

Chirag Khurana (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center), Kaelyn Dunnell (MIT), Jarred Jordan (Georgia Tech), James Dark (MIT), Huihua Yang (MIT), Remi Delaporte-Mathurin (MIT), Shaheen Dewji (Georgia Tech)

History of High-Speed Pellet Injector Development

3:26–3:27PM MDT

L.R. Baylor (ORNL)

Impurity Processing for Cryogenic Material Injection Systems

3:27–3:28PM MDT

Paulina M. Texier (Columbia Univ.), Eliot Felske (Columbia Univ.), Celeste Lamadrid (Columbia Univ.), Trey E. Gebhart (ORNL), Sophia Jakel (Columbia Univ.), Julia Kirby (Columbia Univ.), Cassandra McGinley (Columbia Univ.), Sara John (Columbia Univ.), L.R. Baylor (ORNL), Carlos A. Paz-Soldan (Columbia Univ.), Brenda Garcia-Diaz (SRNL), Pricilla Dua (Columbia Univ.), Hope Hersom (Columbia Univ.)

The Development of a CAPE-OPEN Compatible Vacuum Pump Model for the Hydrogen Fuel Cycle

3:28–3:29PM MDT

Richard-Joseph L. Peterson (LANL), William L. Kubic (LANL), Joseph H. Dumont (LANL)

Measurement of Cryogenic Pellet Ablation Rate and Multi-Species Density

3:29–3:30PM MDT

Eliot Felske (Columbia Univ.), Celeste Lamadrid (Columbia Univ.), John Caughman (ORNL), Carlos A. Paz-Soldan (Columbia Univ.), Trey E. Gebhart (ORNL), L.R. Baylor (ORNL), Pricilla Dua (Columbia Univ.), Jeffrey Herfindal (ORNL), Julia Kirby (Columbia Univ.), Paulina Texier (Columbia Univ.), Cassandra McGinley (Columbia Univ.), Sara John (Columbia Univ.), Sophia Jakel (Columbia Univ.), Hope Hersom (Columbia Univ.)

Novel Eutectic Metal Method for Remote Joining of Utilities in a Fusion Power Plant

3:30–3:31PM MDT

Sebastian Matiauda (ORNL), Ted Boyd (ORNL), Venugopal K. Varma (ORNL), Adam M. Aaron (ORNL)

Engineering Workflow for Rapid Iteration of Sheared-Flow-Stabilized Z-Pinch Devices

3:31–3:32PM MDT

Seiji U. Thielk (Zap Energy), Frederic Gicquel (Zap Energy)

Surrogate Model Acceleration for Monte Carlo Analysis of Fusion Components

3:32–3:33PM MDT

Jonathan Trieloff (MIT), Ethan E. Peterson (MIT)

Development of a Coupled Neutronics and Thermal-Hydraulics Model for Sensor-Driven Tritium Tracking in Fusion Breeding Blankets

3:33–3:34PM MDT

Jessica Wysocki (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Juan M. Valderrama (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Paul P. Wilson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Juliana Pacheco Duarte (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Monica Gehrig (ORNL), Paul W. Humrickhouse (Type One Energy), Ben Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)

Isothermal Flow-Assisted Corrosion of Molten Chloride Salts for Fusion Blanket Applications

3:34–3:35PM MDT

Alina Jugan (MIT), Michael P. Short (MIT)

Study of a VNS ECRH launcher: Structural system and integration concept

3:35–3:36PM MDT

Peter Spaeh (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), Christian Bachmann (EURO-Fusion), Alessandro Bruschi (ISTP), Aljaž Čufar (Jožef Stefan Institute), Francesco Fanale (ISTP), Thomas Franke (Eurofusion), Dirk Strauss (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), Chuanren Wu (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology)

Developing Positron Emission Particle Tracking (PEPT) for Liquid Metal Flow Imaging

3:36–3:37PM MDT

Cody S. Wiggins (ORNL)

Modeling Tungsten Divertor Response to ELM-like Transients

3:37–3:38PM MDT

Kathryn L. Lygre (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Pierre-Clement A. Simon (INL), Adriaan A. Riet (INL), Paul P. Wilson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)

Fabrication Control of Radial Contact Resistivity in HTS Coils

3:38–3:39PM MDT

Melanie Russo (Columbia Univ.), Dylan Schmeling (Columbia Univ.), Carlos A. Paz-Soldan (Columbia Univ.), Thaddeus Kiker (Columbia Univ.)

Desktop Additive Manufacture of an RF Metamaterial with Fused Deposition Modeling to Simulate the Cold Plasma Dielectric Tensor for Lower Hybrid Wave Propagation

3:39–3:40PM MDT

Andrew Seltzman (MIT), Jordan Bergmann (MIT), Stephen J. Wukitch (MIT)

Structural Analysis of the Planned Upgrade to the ITER ECH Transmission Line System

3:40–3:41PM MDT

Aravind Shanmugasundaram (US ITER), Greg Hanson (ORNL), Chad Madaychik (US ITER), Ben Hardy (ORNL), Michael Kaufman (ORNL), Robert L. Myatt (Myatt Consulting), Kristine Cochran (Myatt Consulting)

Conceptual Design of the ECH system for Infinity One

3:41–3:42PM MDT

Humberto Torreblanca (Type One Energy), Tim Bigelow (Type One Energy), Luquant Singh (Type One Energy), Walter Guttenfelder (Type One Energy), Kevin Rogers (Type One Energy), Ian Harnett (Type One Energy), Antoine Cerfon (Type One Energy), Alex Baranovsky (Type One Energy)

SHIELD: A Gas Driven Permeation rig for Hydrogen Permeation Barrier testing

3:42–3:43PM MDT

James Dark (MIT), Colin Weaver (MIT), Rémi Delaporte-Mathurin (MIT), Sara E. Ferry (MIT), Kevin B. Woller (MIT)

Measurement and Analysis of Fast Neutron and Gamma Ray Spectra in a Concrete Shielding Assembly Irradiated with 14 MeV Neutrons

3:43–3:44PM MDT

Axel Klix (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), Davide Flammini (ENEA), Daniil Koliadko (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), Dieter Leichtle (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology)

Machine Learning-Informed Prediction of Single-Nuclide Activation Responses

3:44–3:45PM MDT

Anupama S. Rajendra (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Tim D. Bohm (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Paul P. Wilson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)

New Developments in Transport and Activation Computational Simulations in Accelerator-based Facilities

3:45–3:46PM MDT

Victor Lopez (Univ. Nacional de Educacion a Distancia), Patrick Sauvan (Univ. Nacional de Educacion a Distancia), Francisco Ogando (Univ. Nacional de Educacion a Distancia), Javier Sanz (Univ. Nacional de Educacion a Distancia)

In Situ Radiation Induced Electrical Degradation and Thermal Conductivity Measurements for Ceramics

3:46–3:47PM MDT

Zoe L. Fisher (MIT), Angus Wylie (MIT), Michael P. Short (MIT)

Assessing Viability of Carbide Dispersion Strengthened W Composites as Plasma Facing Materials for RF Antenna Applications

3:47–3:48PM MDT

Kaitlyn Butler (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), John Caughman (ORNL), Mason D. Phillips (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Emily H. Mang (ORNL), Weicheng Zhong (ORNL), Caen K. Ang (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Xing Wang (Penn State), David C. Donovan (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)

Design, Synthesis, Characterization and Testing of Low Activation Alloys for Fusion Energy

3:48–3:49PM MDT

Osman El Atwani (PNNL), Skye Supakul (PNNL), Robin Ishtiaque (PNNL), Enrique Martinez Saez (Clemson Univ.), Wahyu Setyawan (PNNL), Dan Thoma (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)

Overview of the Upcoming Tungsten Tile Testing Campaign at DIII-D

3:49–3:50PM MDT

Jonathan D. Coburn (Sandia), Chris Murphy (General Atomics), Tom Wauters (ITER Organization), Karl Schultz (General Atomics), Kyle Teixeira (General Atomics), Suk-Ho Hong (DIII-D National Fusion Facility at GA), Igor Bykov (General Atomics), Tyler Abrams (General Atomics), Florian Effenberg (Princeton Univ.), Adrianus Sips (General Atomics), Lei Chen (ITER Organization), Franck Dechelette (ITER Organization), Quentin Deliege (ITER Organization), Takeshi Hirai (ITER Organization), Ryan Hunt (ITER Organization)

The LMNT facility: High Throughput, Near Prototypic Irradiation of Bulk Fusion Materials with 10-30 MeV Protons

3:50–3:51PM MDT

Sara E. Ferry (MIT), Zach Hartwig (MIT), Lou Wainwright (MIT)

A Prototype Vacuum-Sieve-Tray for Fusion Fuel Extraction from Molten Salt Blankets

3:51–3:52PM MDT

Eleanor A. Winkler (Columbia Univ.), Eliot Felske (Columbia Univ.), Zohar Ford (Columbia Univ.), Chirag Khurana (Columbia Univ.), Damien Kilduff (Columbia Univ.), Elissa Kim (Columbia Univ.), Rohan Lopez (Columbia Univ.), Maryam Naser (Columbia Univ.), Carlos A. Paz-Soldan (Columbia Univ.)

Characterization of Lead-Lithium and Lessons Learned with Tritium Extraction eXperiment

3:52–3:53PM MDT

Thomas Fuerst (INL), Wei Tang (INL), Anthony Bowers (INL), Chase N. Taylor (INL), Pattrick Calderoni (INL)

Improving Permeator Modelling in the Low-Flux Regime

3:53–3:54PM MDT

Sleight Halley (LANL), Victoria Hypes-Mayfield (LANL), William L. Kubic (LANL), Richard-Joseph Peterson (LANL), Joseph H. Dumont (LANL), David Dogruel (LANL)

Pulsed Liner Fusion: Advantages and Challenges for the High Current Pulsed Power Approach to IFE

3:54–3:55PM MDT

Simon Bott-Suzuki (Univ. California, San Diego), Noah Dilworth (Univ. California, San Diego), Sergio Veliz (Univ. California, San Diego), Matt Gomez (Sandia), Chris Jennings (Sandia), Kyle Peterson (Sandia), Paul Holligan (First Light Fusion), Johnathan Skidmore (First Light Fusion), Ryan D. McBride (Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor), Simon Bland (Imperial College London), Jack Hare (Cornell Univ.)

Neutron-tolerant Diagnostics for Wall Temperature in a Fusion Reactor

3:55–3:56PM MDT

Maxim Umansky (LLNL), Alessandro Marinoni (Univ. California, San Diego), David Aldana (Univ. California, San Diego)

Preliminary Mechanical Design and Analysis for In-vessel components of the ITER Electron Cyclotron Emission

3:56–3:57PM MDT

Jagrut Bhavsar (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Orlando Pastor (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Jiarong Fang (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), A. Ouroua (Univ. Texas, Austin), Nathan Arnwine (ORNL)

Monolithic Spatial Heterodyne Spectroscopy as a Robust Tool for Tritium Accountancy

3:57–3:58PM MDT

Abigail Waldron (SRNL), Louis Mcnamara (SRNL)

Shape Memory Alloy Connector Applications in Fusion Reactors

3:58–3:59PM MDT

Gordon T. Boyd (ORNL)

Extended Performance Assessment of the ITER Silicon Carbide Pyramidal Emitter Prototype for In-Situ ECE Diagnostic Calibration

3:59–4:00PM MDT

Joseph Ziegel (Univ. Texas, Austin), Max E. Austin (Univ. Texas, Austin), A. Ouroua (Univ. Texas, Austin), William L. Rowan (Univ. Texas, Austin)

Design and Engineering of FURRY: A Plasma-Facing Materials Testing Platform

4:00–4:01PM MDT

Liam K. King (NCSU)

W-based Nanostructures to Suppress Fuzz Formation and Growth

4:01–4:02PM MDT

Yongqiang Wang (LANL), Feng Ren (Wuhan Univ.)

Nuclear Data Uncertainty Propagation in a 1-D Cylindrical Model of the Fusion Nuclear Science Facility (FNSF)

4:02–4:03PM MDT

Enrique Miralles-Dolz (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Michael Churchill (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Tim D. Bohm (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)

Tungsten-Based Refractory High-Entropy Alloys for Plasma-Facing Materials

4:03–4:04PM MDT

Bai Cui (Univ. Nebraska, Lincoln)

Joining Dissimilar Metals with Functionally Graded Materials Prepared by Spark Plasma Sintering

4:04–4:05PM MDT

Bronson Lynn (SRNL), Dale Hitchcock (SRNL), Sawyer Hart (SRNL)

Scalable Severe Plastic Deformation (SPD) and Dynamic Recrystallization (DRX) with Friction-Based Methods for Oxide Dispersion Strengthened (ODS) Alloys

4:05–4:06PM MDT

Dalong Zhang (Baylor Univ.), Brian Jordon (Baylor Univ.), Paul Allison (Baylor Univ.)

Exploration Studies on Open-Surface Fast Lithium Flow Divertor Concept using Tungsten Substrate and Helium Cooling

4:06–4:07PM MDT

Yuchen Jiang (ORNL), Sergey Smolentsev (ORNL), Sunday C. Aduloju (ORNL), Rajesh Maingi (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

MHD Behavior of Weakly Electrical Conducting Fluids Subject to Conducting Walls

4:07–4:08PM MDT

Justin Weinmeister (ORNL), Hao Wu (Commonwealth Fusion Systems)

Catalyzed Deuterium Fusion Neutron Source for the Transmutation and Recycling of Actinides

4:08–4:09PM MDT

John Slough (MSNW Group)

Development of Current Driven Cryogenic Fibers for Preheat in MagLIF

4:09–4:10PM MDT

Simon C. Bott Suzuki (Univ. California, San Diego), Noah Dilworth (Univ. California, San Diego), Sergio Veliz (Univ. California, San Diego), Matt Gomez (Sandia), Chris Jennings (Sandia), Kyle Peterson (Sandia), Tom Awe (Sandia)

Conceptual Layout of a Non-Nuclear BCTF in San Diego to Accelerate Fusion Blanket Technology Development

4:10–4:11PM MDT

Giacomo Dose (General Atomics), Brian Grierson (General Atomics), Paul Beharrell (General Atomics), Ken Khumthong (General Atomics), Bruce Lombardo (General Atomics), Panto Mijatovic (General Atomics), Nikolai Norausky (General Atomics), Mark S. Tillack (General Atomics), David Weisberg (General Atomics)

Stellarator Design Optimization via Automated Simulation Workflows and AI a Cost-Account-First Formulation in the Nuplant Framework

4:11–4:12PM MDT

Omer Mohammed (nTtau Digital), Simon Woodruff (nTtau Digital Ltd), Abinash Manikandan (nTtau Digital), Dominic Longhorn (nTtau Digital), Jamie Edwards (nTtau Digital), Luis Garcia-Alen Garcia (nTtau Digital), Max Moreland (nTtau Digital), Megan Crocker (nTtau Digital), Sophie Sharpe (nTtau Digital), Thomas Wynne (nTtau Digital), Tushaar Davies (nTtau Digital)

Hot Isostatic Pressing Technology for V-4Cr-4Ti alloys to tungsten joining for Fusion Reactor Applications

4:12–4:13PM 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)

Coupled Neutronics-CFD Modeling of Activated Corrosion Product Transport

4:13–4:14PM MDT

Arpan Sircar (ORNL), Jin Whan Bae (ORNL), Katarzyna Borowiec (ORNL), Vittorio Badalassi (ORNL), Cami Collins (ORNL)

Early Performance Assessment of High-Z Oxide Coated Silicon Nitride Helicon Windows for MPEX

4:14–4:15PM MDT

Gayatri D. Dhamale (ORNL), John Caughman (ORNL), Marlene Patino (Univ. California, San Diego), Matthew Baldwin (Univ. California, San Diego), Theodore M. Biewer (ORNL), Tim Bigelow (ORNL), Keisuke Fujii (ORNL), Richard Goulding (ORNL), Michael Kaufman (ORNL), Joshua Larson (ORNL), Cornwall Lau (ORNL), Harry Meyer III (ORNL), Simon Moor (Univ. California, San Diego), George Tynan (Univ. California, San Diego), Ezekial Unterberg (ORNL)

Updates on the Neutron Irradiation Campaign of Solid Breeder Materials for the Fusion Blanket Development through Nuclear Testing FIRE Collaborative

4:15–4:16PM MDT

Xiao-Ying Yu (ORNL), Richard H. Howard (ORNL), Josina W. Geringer (ORNL), Gabriel Parker (ORNL), Adrian Schrell (ORNL), Jose L. Salcedo-Perez (ORNL), Tobias Misicko (ORNL), Jacob Mohar (ORNL), Beth Armstrong (ORNL)

The Current MPEX Research Plan and Preparation for Transition to Operations

4:16–4:17PM MDT

Joshua J. Larson (ORNL), John Caughman (ORNL), Theodore M. Biewer (ORNL), Gayatri Dhamale (ORNL), Michael Kaufman (ORNL), Lauren Nuckols (ORNL), Jake Nichols (ORNL), Muhammad Hussain (ORNL), John Sanseverino (ORNL), Ezekial Unterberg (ORNL)

Lead-Lithium Blanket Activities at Idaho National Laboratory

4:17–4:18PM MDT

Thomas Fuerst (INL), Wei Tang (INL), Anthony Bowers (INL), Chase N. Taylor (INL), Matthew Arrowood (INL), Matthew Vaughan (INL), Pattrick Calderoni (INL)

Experimental Investigation of Flow Boiling in a Divertor Cooling Channel Mock-up Using Visual and Thermal Imaging

4:18–4:19PM MDT

Gregor Kozmus (Jožef Stefan Institute), Aljosa Gajsek (Jožef Stefan Institute), Bostjan Koncar (Jožef Stefan Institute)

Conceptual Design of a Megawatt-Scale Muon-Catalyzed Fusion Machine

4:19–4:20PM MDT

Ara N. Knaian (Acceleron Fusion)

Used Nuclear Fuel for On-Ramping the Fusion Economy with Kilogram Quantities of Commercial Tritium

4:20–4:21PM MDT

Terence Tarnowsky (LANL), Paul Lisowski (LANL), Richard L. Sheffield (LANL)

Unlocking the Potential of Vanadium Metal Membranes for Tritium Recovery

4:21–4:22PM MDT

Cameron Burst (Colorado School of Mines), Thomas Fuerst (INL), Wei Tang (INL), J. Douglas Way (Colorado School of Mines), Colin A. Wolden (Colorado School of Mines)

Water Detritiation: From ML-Guided Selection to Catalyst Synthesis

4:22–4:23PM MDT

Rashad Ahmadov (Univ. Rochester), Mark Wittman (Univ. Rochester), Zachary Robinson (Univ. Rochester), Matthew Sharpe (Univ. Rochester)

Tracking In-flight Spherical Inertial Fusion Energy Surrogate Targets

4:23–4:24PM MDT

Chris McGuffey (General Atomics)

Cold Start Catalyst Bed Testing: Tritium Recovery in an Accidental Release

4:24–4:44PM MDT

Sleight Halley (LANL)

Compact Ion Optical System with Internal Cooling for 1 MW Long-pulse NBI

4:44–4:54PM MDT

Aleksandr Listopad (EPFL - SPC), Alexander Karpushov (EPFL - SPC), Bassem Sudki (EPFL - SPC), Matthieu Toussaint (EPFL - SPC)