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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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DNFSB’s Summers ends board tenure, extending agency’s loss of quorum
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The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, the independent agency responsible for ensuring that Department of Energy facilities are protective of public health and safety, announced that the board’s acting chairman, Thomas Summers, has concluded his service with the agency, having completed his second term as a board member on October 18.
Summers’ departure leaves Patricia Lee, who joined the DNFSB after being confirmed by the Senate in July 2024, as the board’s only remaining member and acting chair. Lee’s DNFSB board term ends in October 2027.
Technical Session
Monday, May 9, 2022|1:30–3:30PM EDT|Calypso
Session Chair:
Harold Gerrish (NASA)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Katey E. Lenox (INL)
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INL Operations Improvements of Nuclear Enabled Missions for NASA
Eric Clarke (INL), Stephen Johnson (INL)
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Perspectives on Demonstration and Qualifications Plans for Human-Rated NTP Systems
Ethan Chaleff (USNC-Tech), Doug Greisen (USNC-Tech), Michael Eades (USNC-Tech), Vishal Patel (USNC-Tech), Morgan Gulliver (USCN-Tech)
Flight Model of a Small ETG for the Low Earth Orbit Test
Jintae Hong (KAERI), Wanook Ji (KAERI), Jong-Bum Kim (KAERI), Kwang-Jae Son (KAERI), Jin-Joo Kim (KAERI)
Design of a Dynamic Radioisotope Power System Generator Testbed
Ernestina Wozniak (NASA Glenn Research Center), Salvatore Oriti (NASA Glenn Research Center), Rebecca Buehrle (NASA Glenn Research Center), Ronald Leibach (NASA Glenn Research Center), Max Yang (NASA Glenn Research Center), Matthew Stang (NASA Glenn Research Center), Paul Raitano (NASA Glenn Research Center)
Fabrication and Performance Testing of SiGe Unicouples with Cassini RTG Production Line Materials
Ike S. Chi (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Billy C.-Y. Li (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Kevin L. Smith (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Sutinee Sujittosakul (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Araseli Cortez (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Brian Phan (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Chen-Kuo Huang (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Pawan Gogna (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Gregory Gerig (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), George Nakatsukasa (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Vilupanur Ravi (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Bill Nesmith (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Jean-Pierre Fleurial (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
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