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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|6. Plasma Physics Engineering
Tuesday, June 2, 2026|1:00–2:45PM MDT|Tower D
Session Chair:
Zeke Unterberg (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Katie Butler (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Session Organizer:
Thomas Fuerst (INL)
Track Organizer:
Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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Exploring Passive Disruption Mitigation Techniques in the ARC-class Reactor: the Liquid Sandwich Vacuum Vessel
1:00–1:20PM MDT
Gabriele Ferrero (MIT), Joseph Jerkins (MIT), Ethan E. Peterson (MIT), Christopher Hansen (Columbia Univ.), Jeffrey P. Freidberg (MIT), Dennis Whyte (MIT), Sara E. Ferry (MIT)
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Modeling Impurity Ion Transport in HIDRA During Lithium Evaporation
1:20–1:40PM MDT
Steven P. Gula (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Andrew Shone (Tokamak Energy), Nina Mihajlov (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Arnav Goyal (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Rajesh Maingi (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Andrei Khodak (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Sergey Smolentsev (ORNL), Daniel E. Andruczyk (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Davide Curreli (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Time-Dependent Strike-Point Sweeping Simulation in MAST-U using the FreeGSNKE MHD Equilibrium Code in the IPS-FASTRAN Framework
1:40–2:00PM MDT
Ehab Hassan (ORNL), Sebastian De Pascuale (ORNL), Ivan Paradela Perez (ORNL), Davis Easley (ORNL)
Burn Control in ITER by Maximization of Ion Cyclotron Power Absorption Through Regulation of Helium-3 Concentration
2:00–2:20PM MDT
Vincent Graber (Lehigh Univ.), Eugenio Schuster (Lehigh Univ.), Christopher Klepper (ORNL), Ernesto Lerche (Laboratory for Plasma Physics, ERM/KMS), Theodore M. Biewer (ORNL), Jeremy Lore (ORNL)
Flexible, Axisymmetric MHD Solver for Coupled Plasma and Liquid Metal Blanket Dynamics
2:20–2:40PM MDT
Sophia Guizzo (Columbia Univ.), Christopher Hansen (Columbia Univ.), Samuel Freiberger (Columbia Univ.), Carlos A. Paz-Soldan (Columbia Univ.)
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