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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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After nearly three weeks of a government shutdown, the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration has furloughed 1,400 employees and has retained 400 as essential employees who will continue working without pay.
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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