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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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The spark of the Super: Teller–Ulam and the birth of the H-bomb—rivalry, credit, and legacy at 75 years
In early 1951, Los Alamos scientists Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam devised a breakthrough that would lead to the hydrogen bomb [1]. Their design gave the United States an initial advantage in the Cold War, though comparable progress was soon achieved independently in the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE)
Technical Session
Tuesday, June 14, 2022|3:15–5:40PM PDT|Huntington B/C
Session Chair:
Arnie Lumsdaine (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Leigh Winfrey
Session Organizer:
Paul W. Humrickhouse (ORNL)
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Material Plasma Exposure eXperiment (MPEX) High Heat-Flux Microwave Absorbers Design, Manufacture, and Articles Test
Muhammad A. Hussain (ORNL), Vivek Rao (ORNL), Nathan Branch (ORNL), Travis Gray (ORNL), Adam Kubik (ORNL), Adam M. Aaron (ORNL), Kirby Logan (ORNL), Stephen Stewart (ORNL), Arnold Lumsdaine (ORNL), Guy S. Showers (Penn State), Ryan L. Romesberg (Penn State), Douglas E. Wolfe (Penn State)
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Performance Comparison of Helium and sCO2 as Coolants for Modular Finger-Type Divertors
Michael L. Lanahan (Georgia Tech), Said I. Abdel-Khalik (Georgia Tech), Minami Yoda (Georgia Tech)
Qualification and Commissioning of Helium Flow Loop Experiment for Blanket Design Measurements
Cody S. Wiggins (ORNL), Dennis L. Youchison (ORNL), Fayaz Rasheed (ORNL), Charles E. Kessel (ORNL), Monica Gehrig (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Michael Harper (ORNL), Adam J. Carroll (ORNL), Dean McGinnis (ORNL), Michael Morrow (ORNL), Chase Joslin (ORNL)
Thermohydraulic Design Analysis of the Target Assembly for the Material Plasma Exposure eXperiment Facility
Adrian S. Sabau (ORNL), Aftab Hussain (ORNL), Adam M. Aaron (ORNL), Federico Gallo (ORNL)
Ball Milling -- A Low-Cost, High-Throughput Analog for Tritium-Aging of Hydrides?
George K. Larsen (SRNL)
Influence of Microstructure on the Absorption of Tritium into Gold-Plated 316 Stainless Steel
Matthew Sharpe (Univ. Rochester), W. T. Shmayda (Univ. Rochester)
Direct Investigation of Hydrogen Isotope Permeation in Group V Metals & Alloys
Kacie A. Breeding (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Steven J. Zinkle (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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