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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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DNFSB’s Summers ends board tenure, extending agency’s loss of quorum
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The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, the independent agency responsible for ensuring that Department of Energy facilities are protective of public health and safety, announced that the board’s acting chairman, Thomas Summers, has concluded his service with the agency, having completed his second term as a board member on October 18.
Summers’ departure leaves Patricia Lee, who joined the DNFSB after being confirmed by the Senate in July 2024, as the board’s only remaining member and acting chair. Lee’s DNFSB board term ends in October 2027.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE)
Technical Session
Tuesday, June 14, 2022|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Huntington A
Session Chair:
Larry Baylor (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Paul W. Humrickhouse
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Automatic Inference and Control of Field Reversed Configuration Plasmas in C-2W
Jesus A. Romero (TAE Technologies), Kevin Phung (TAE Technologies), Colin Finucane (TAE Technologies), Sergei Galkin (TAE Technologies), Deepak Gupta (TAE Technologies), Marcel Nations (TAE Technologies), Kan Zhai (TAE Technologies), Roger Smith (TAE Technologies), Roberto Mendoza (TAE Technologies), Nathan Bolte (TAE Technologies), Tommy Roche (TAE Technologies), Erik Trask (TAE Technologies), Sergei Putvinski (TAE Technologies)
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First High-Power Results from the DIII-D Helicon System
Bart Van Compernolle (General Atomics), M. W. Brookman (General Atomics), R. I. Pinsker (General Atomics), C. P. Moeller (General Atomics), J. P. Squire (General Atomics), A. M. Garofalo (General Atomics), A. Nagy (PPPL), S. Chowdhury (Univ. California, Los Angeles), N. A. Crocker (Univ. California, Los Angeles), G. DeGrandchamp (UCI), E. Hinson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), A. Marinoni (MIT), E. H. Martin (ORNL), C. C. Petty (General Atomics), M. Porkolab (MIT), C. Rost (MIT), O. Schmitz (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), J. Watkins (Sandia)
Wave Coupling and Propagation from the Helicon Antenna in LAPD
Joshua J. Larson (Univ. California, Los Angeles), Bart V. Compernolle (General Atomics), Robert I. Pinsker (General Atomics), Troy A. Carter (Univ. California, Los Angeles)
Insulating Antenna Enclosures for RF Sheath Mitigation
Gurleen Bal (Univ. California, Los Angeles), Bart V. Compernolle (General Atomics), Pat Pribyl (Univ. California, Los Angeles), Josh Larson (Univ. California, Los Angeles), Troy Carter (Univ. California, Los Angeles)
Initial Commissioning Test Results of the Wendelstein 7-X Continuous Pellet Fueling System
Steven Meitner (ORNL), Larry Baylor (ORNL)
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