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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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I work in the analytical labs at one of Europe’s oldest and largest nuclear sites: Sellafield, in northwestern England. I spend my days at the fume hood front, pipette in one hand and radiation probe in the other (and dosimeter pinned to my chest, of course). Outside the lab, I have a second job: I moonlight as a writer and public speaker. My new popular science book—Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World—came out last summer, and it feels like my life has been running at full power ever since.
Technical Session|Sponsored by OPD
Wednesday, June 15, 2022|10:15AM–12:00PM PDT|San Simeon A
Session Chair:
W. Neal Mann (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
Tim Crook (MCR Performance Solutions)
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Microreactor Deployment for Rapid Power Supply in Emergency/Natural Disaster Situations
Sola Talabi (Pittsburgh Technical), Rohan Biwalkar (Pittsburgh Technical)
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Assessment of Moving Packed Bed Heat Exchangers to Dispatch Process Heat from Micro-Reactors
Zayed Ahmed (Kansas State), Hitesh Bindra (Kansas State)
Presented by T-Ying Lin (Kansas State)
Scaling Siting Criteria and Alternative Licensing Pathways for Micro-Reactors
Edward J. Garcia (MIT), Lucy Nester (MIT), Jacopo Buongiorno (MIT)
Opportunities for Advanced Mobile Reactors in Times of Disaster and War
Aaron Horwood (Univ. South Carolina), Travis Knight (Univ. South Carolina)
Locational Variance in Nuclear Micro-Reactor Performance Under Microgrid Conditions
Ryan Dailey (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Ben Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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