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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Westinghouse updates: Japan investment, competitors, and a new report
March has put Westinghouse front and center in multiple news stories, from its role in Japan’s investment in U.S. nuclear energy to the economic impact that 10 potential AP1000 reactors could bring to the United States.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE)
Technical Session
Wednesday, June 15, 2022|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Huntington B/C
Session Chair:
Brian Grierson (General Atomics)
Alternate Chair:
Leigh Winfrey
Session Organizer:
Rajesh Maingi
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Progress in a US-Based Liquid Metal Plasma-Facing Component Design Activity for a Fusion Nuclear Science Facility
Rajesh Maingi (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Daniel E. Andruczyk (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Davide Curreli (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), M.S. Islam (ORNL), Charles E. Kessel (ORNL), Andrei Khodak (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Egemen Kolemen (PPPL), Jeremy Lore (ORNL), Daniel O'Dea (UIUC), Francisco Paenz (PU), Bruce A. Pint (ORNL), Rabel Rizkallah (UIUC), Marie Romedenne (UT-Battelle ORNL), Sergey Smolentsev (ORNL), Zhen Sun (PPPL), Brian Wynne (PU), Dennis L. Youchison (ORNL)
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Overview of Liquid Metal PFC R&D at UIUC
Daniel E. Andruczyk (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Rabel Rizkallah (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Daniel O'Dea (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Andrew Shone (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Sam Smith (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Brandon E. Kamiyama (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Rajesh Maingi (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Chuck E. Kessel (ORNL), Sergey Smolentsev (Univ. California, Los Angeles), Thomas Morgan (Dutch Institute For Fundamental Energy Research), Fabio Romano (Dutch Institute For Fundamental Energy Research)
Design and MHD Thermofluids Analysis for an Open-Surface Fast-Flow Liquid Lithium Divertor
Sergey Smolentsev (Univ. California, Los Angeles), Charles E. Kessel (ORNL), Jeremy Lore (ORNL), Rajesh Maingi (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
Experiments and Simulations of Free Surface Liquid Metal Flow under Magnetohydrodynamic Conditions at LMX-U
Egemen Kolemen (Princeton Univ.), Andrei Khodak (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Francisco J. Saenz Castro (Princeton Univ.), Jabir A. Salam (Kyushu Univ.), Sergey Smolentsev (Univ. California, Los Angeles), Zhen Sun (PPPL), Brian Wynne (Princeton Univ.)
Plasma Boundary Response Calculations for a Fast Flow Liquid Lithium Divertor
Jeremy Lore (ORNL), M.S. Islam (ORNL), Charles E. Kessel (ORNL), Davide Curreli (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Rajesh Maingi (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), M. Rezazadeh (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), S. Smolentsev (ORNL)
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