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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Fusion research tackles fuel and instrumentation challenges
Three research groups are reporting fusion-related developments, including ongoing work toward spin-polarized fusion, a new plasma diagnostic tool heading to the National Ignition Facility, and a materials science project that could impact the design of inertial confinement fusion fuel targets.
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fundamental Irradiation Damage
Monday, December 11, 2023|9:30–11:30AM CST|Galerie 6
Session Chair:
Khalid Hattar
Alternate Chair:
Flyura Djurabekova (Univ. Helsinki)
Track Organizers:
Steve Zinkle (University of Tennessee & Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Mitra Taheri (Johns Hopkins University)
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Investigating the Low-Energy Recoil Events in GaN
9:30–9:50AM CST
A.S. Hauck (Penn State), B.R. Tuttle (Penn State Behrend), M. Jin (Penn State)
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Investigation of Ion Irradiation Effects on Mineral Analogues of Concrete Aggregates
9:50–10:10AM CST
Zehui Qi (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Steven John Zinkle (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Yann Le Pape (ORNL), Elena Tajuelo Rodriguez (ORNL), Xin Chen (Univ. California, Los Angeles), Arnaud Bouissonnié (Univ. California, Los Angeles), Gaurav Sant (Univ. California, Los Angeles)
Determination of the Radiation Induced Athermal Diffusivity in Uranium Mononitride from an Integrated Approach
10:10–10:30AM CST
A. Schneider (LANL), M. Cooper (LANL), J. Rizk (LANL), T. Matthews (LANL), M. Kosmidou (LANL), D. Andersson (LANL)
Cluster Dynamics Simulations of the Full Xenon-Vacancy-Interstitial Phase-Space in Irradiated UO2
10:30–10:50AM CST
S. Blondel (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), C. Matthews (LANL), M. Cooper (LANL), B. Wirth (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), D. Andersson (LANL)
Self-Irradiation Effects During Alternative Cooling and Heating of δ-phase 239Pu-Ga Alloys
10:50–11:10AM CST
Alice I. Smith (LANL), F.J. Freibert (LANL), S.C. Vogel (LANL), J. Zhang (LANL), J.E. Siewenie (LANL), S. Richmond (LANL), M. Ramos (LANL)
Modeling Radiolysis Effects in FLiNaK and FLiBe Molten Fluoride Salt
11:10–11:30AM CST
A. Peterkin (MIT), H. Caralp (Brown Univ.), W. Zhou (MIT), M. Short (MIT)
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