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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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PR: American Nuclear Society welcomes Senate confirmation of Ted Garrish as the DOE’s nuclear energy secretary
Washington, D.C. — The American Nuclear Society (ANS) applauds the U.S. Senate's confirmation of Theodore “Ted” Garrish as Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
“On behalf of over 11,000 professionals in the fields of nuclear science and technology, the American Nuclear Society congratulates Mr. Garrish on being confirmed by the Senate to once again lead the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy,” said ANS President H.M. "Hash" Hashemian.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE)
Technical Session
Thursday, June 16, 2022|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Huntington A
Session Chair:
Tommy Roche (TAE Technologies)
Alternate Chair:
Leigh Winfrey
Session Organizer:
Paul W. Humrickhouse (ORNL)
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Passive Deconfinement of Runaway Electrons Using an In-Vessel Helical Coil
David Weisberg (General Atomics), Carlos Paz-Soldan (Columbia Univ.), Yueqiang Liu (General Atomics), Anders Welander (General Atomics), Collin Dunn (Georgia Tech)
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ORNL Progress in Disruption Mitigation Technology in Support of ITER
L.R. Baylor (ORNL), Trey E. Gebhart (ORNL), Steven Meitner (ORNL), David Rasmussen (ORNL)
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