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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|1:15–3:00PM MDT|Tower C
Session Chair:
Thanh Q. Hua (ANL)
Session Organizer:
Lane Carasik
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Investigations of Thermal Transients of a FLiBe Based Liquid Immersion Blanket System using SAM
1:15–1:35PM MDT
Trevor Franklin (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Alexander Coxe (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Sierra Tutwiler (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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Running Out of Fusion Gas
1:35–1:55PM MDT
Mohammad A. Allaf (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Dean Krueger (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Matthew J. Nyberg (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Sarah Francis (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Ben Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Paul P. Wilson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Code-to-code Comparison of OpenMC and ORIGEN for Isotopic Depletion in Fusion
1:55–2:15PM MDT
Son N. Quang (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Jonathan F. Wing (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), G. Ivan Maldonado (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Simulating Neutron Activation of Impurities in Feedstock Lithium in a Fusion Breeder Environment
2:15–2:35PM MDT
Alexander J. Lascheid (Univ. New Mexico), Liam Pohlmann (Univ. New Mexico), Ethan Pater (Univ. New Mexico), Eric J. Lang (Univ. New Mexico), John Elling (Molten Salt Solutions)
Benchmarking and Validation of MHD Models for Non-conducting Circular Ducts in SAM and NekRS for Fusion Blanket Applications
2:35–2:55PM MDT
Thanh Q. Hua (ANL), Eric Cervi (ANL), Misun Min (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL), Ling Zou (ANL)
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