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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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FERC decision on Crane restart coming in June or July, Constellation execs say
In a first quarter earnings call Monday, executives at Constellation said they should know in June or July the status of a request to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to transfer capacity interconnection rights from the company’s Eddystone gas- and-oil-powered plant in Pennsylvania to Crane nuclear power plant (formerly Three Mile Island-1).
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE 2026)
Technical Session|3. Fusion Enabling Technologies
Wednesday, June 3, 2026|10:00–11:45AM MDT|Tower D
Session Chair:
Juliana P. Duarte (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Session Organizer:
Thomas Fuerst (INL)
Track Organizer:
Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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Demonstration of a Plasma Disruption in a Tokamak using MELCOR-TMAP
10:00–10:10AM MDT
Anthony C. Garcia (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Donkoan Hwang (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Juliana Pacheco Duarte (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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Updates on Non-Planar NI-HTS Prototype Magnets for the Columbia Stellarator eXperiment (CSX)
10:10–10:20AM MDT
Dylan Schmeling (Columbia Univ.), Carlos A. Paz-Soldan (Columbia Univ.), Beruktawit Gebreamlak (Columbia Univ.), Alexander Skrypek (Columbia Univ.), Thaddaeus Kiker (Columbia Univ.), Aiden Hightower (Columbia Univ.), Jennifer Xue (Columbia Univ.), Sylvia Chen (Columbia Univ.), Sabya Sohaib (Columbia Univ.), Casandra Martinez (Columbia Univ.), Olena Teslia (Columbia Univ.), Luis Rubio Martinez (Columbia Univ.), Melanie Russo (Columbia Univ.)
Factory Acceptance Testing of the Magnet Subsystems for the Material Plasma Exposure eXperiment (MPEX)
10:20–10:30AM MDT
Robert C. Duckworth (ORNL), Geoff Laughon (ORNL), Muhammad A. Hussain (ORNL), John Sanseverino (ORNL), Simon Keys (Tesla Engineering Ltd.), Earle Burkhardt (Type One Energy), Steve Kenney (Type One Energy)
Photodetachment Neutralization Concepts for Neutral Beam Injection
10:30–10:40AM MDT
Chai D. Peddeti (Eos Atomics), Connor Dietz (Eos Atomics), Ryan Weed (Eos Atomics), Craig Cahillane (Syracuse Univ.)
Investigation of Reynolds Number Impact on Twisted Tape Inserts using Large Eddy Simulations
10:40–10:50AM MDT
Gavin Standish (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Sierra Tutwiler (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
System-Level Modeling of Activated FLiBe Coolant in an ARC-Like Fusion Reactor
10:50–11:00AM MDT
Marco De Pietri (MIT), Ethan E. Peterson (MIT)
Radiation Sources to be Considered in the Integrated Design of a Fusion Reactor
11:00–11:10AM MDT
Michael J. Loughlin (ORNL), Ariel Marquez (ORNL)
Uncertainty Quantification of Shut Down Dose Rate in the FNG-Dose Rate Experiment
11:10–11:20AM MDT
Yogendra S. Panchal (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Bamidele Ebiwonjumi (MIT), Ethan E. Peterson (MIT), G. Ivan Maldonado (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Pb-Li MHD Experiments for Fusion Blankets: Current Data, Gaps, and a New Facility
11:20–11:30AM MDT
Ryder L. Belgarde (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Donkoan Hwang (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Craig Jacobson (Realta Fusion), Juliana Pacheco Duarte (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Effective Integration of Conventional Power Generation within Fusion Plant Architecture
11:30–11:40AM MDT
Steven Albert-Green (Hatch), Nathan McNally (Hatch)
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