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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.
Technical Session
Monday, May 9, 2022|10:30AM–12:30PM EDT|Calypso
Session Chair:
Scott Wilson (NASA)
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Alternate Chair:
Emily Jane Watkinson (University of Leicester)
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MSL MMRTG Power Modeling for Lifetime Performance Predictions
Brian Phan (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Eric Wood (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Jennifer Herman (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Jagdish Patel (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Thierry Caillat (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Stanley Pinkowski (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
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The European Radioisotope Power Systems Program: Recent Updates and Synergies
Richard M. Ambrosi (Univ. Leicester), Alessandra Barco (Univ. Leicester), Ramy Mesalam (Univ. Leicester), Emily Jane Watkinson (Univ. Leicester), Chris Bicknell (Univ. Leicester), Tony Crawford (Univ. Leicester), Keith Stephenson (European Space Agency), Hugo Williams (Univ. Leicester), Piyal Samara-Ratna (Univ. Leicester), Jesse Stuck (Univ. Leicester), Craig Hiley (Univ. Leicester), Kevin Simpson (European Thermodynamics), Richard Tuley (European Thermodynamics), Marie-Claire Perkinson (Airbus), Tim Tinsley (National Nuclear Laboratory), Mark Sarsfield (National Nuclear Laboratory), Jacob White (National Nuclear Laboratory), Daniel Freis (European Commission), Jean-François Vigier (European Commission), Rudy J. M. Konings (European Commission), Jean-Luc Dumont (ArianeGroup), Antoine Villefumade (ArianeGroup), Cédric Lemarié (ArianeGroup), Christophe Fongarland (ArianeGroup), Simon Middleburgh (Bangor Univ.), Gary Jones (Rolls-Royce)
Thermoradiative Arrays: A New Technology for Conversion of Heat into Electrical Power
Geoffrey A. Landis (NASA Glenn Research Center)
JTEC: The Johnson Thermo-Electrochemical Convertor for Heat-to-Electric Conversion
Adrian A. Podpirka (Johns Hopkins APL), Tobias D. Dilworth (Johns Hopkins APL), Tedric Campbell (JTEC Energy), Jonathan P. Jones (Johns Hopkins APL), Phillip I. Johnson (Johns Hopkins APL), Yifan Yuan (Purdue), Sandip Mondal (Purdue), Shriram Ramanathan (Purdue), Timothy F. Miller (TFM Technical), David Johnson (JTEC Energy), Michael McQuary (JTEC Energy), Lonnie G. Johnson (JTEC Energy), Paul Ostdiek (Johns Hopkins APL), Rengaswamy Srinivasan (Johns Hopkins APL)
GPHS Heritage-Like SiGe Unicouple Development with SiGe and SiMo Materials Prepared by Spark Plasma Sintering
Rama Venkatasubramanian (Johns Hopkins APL), Jonathan Pierce (Johns Hopkins APL), Richard Ung (Johns Hopkins APL), Jake Ballard (Johns Hopkins APL), Priestly Shuler (Johns Hopkins APL), Joseph Poon (Univ. Virginia), Mousumi Mitra (Univ. Virginia), Scott Misture (Alfred Univ.), Tim Erickson (Johns Hopkins APL), Paul Ostdiek (Johns Hopkins APL)
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