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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Senate bill looks to clarify DOE authority over advanced reactors
Sen. Mike Lee (R., Utah), chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), has introduced a bill that would grant the Department of Energy greater authority over new nuclear projects under the federal agency’s oversight.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE 2026)
Technical Session|10. Special Sessions
Wednesday, June 3, 2026|3:15–5:00PM MDT|Grand Ballroom 2
Session Chair:
Vittorio Badalassi (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Thomas Fuerst (INL)
Track Organizer:
Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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Nested Pebble Bed Blanket (NesPeB)
3:15–3:35PM MDT
Vittorio Badalassi (ORNL), Vineet Kumar (ORNL), Jin Whan Bae (ORNL), Ragai Altamimi (ORNL), Katarzyna Borowiec (ORNL), Arpan Sircar (ORNL)
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CORTEX: Accelerating Fusion Materials Development with OpenMC and Sirepo
3:35–3:55PM MDT
Tomás Mallmann Paganin (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Patrick C. Shriwise (ANL), Stephen Coleman (RadiaSoft), Rob Nagler (RadiaSoft), Paul Moeller (RadiaSoft), Garrett Cole (Colorado State), Jason C. Quinn (Colorado State), April J. Novak (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
CORTEX: Assessing Cost of Fusion Materials with Design-for-Manufacture Methodologies
3:55–4:15PM MDT
Garrett M. Cole (Colorado State), Tomás Mallmann Paganin (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), April J. Novak (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Patrick C. Shriwise (ANL), Stephen Coleman (RadiaSoft), Jason C. Quinn (Colorado State), Robert Nagler (RadiaSoft)
Development and Deployment of Fission-Fusion Hybrid Systems at the Kilowatt and Megawatt Scales
4:15–4:35PM MDT
Ross F. Radel (SHINE Technologies), Eric J. Edwards (SHINE Technologies), Matthew Nyberg (SHINE Technologies)
Preconceptual Design of A Zap Energy Sheared-Flow Stabilized Z-Pinch Fusion Pilot Plant
4:35–4:55PM MDT
Alex H. Cheung (Zap Energy)
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