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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
Standards Program
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The newest era of workforce development at ANS
As most attendees of this year’s ANS Annual Conference left breakfast in the Grand Ballroom of the Chicago Downtown Marriott to sit in on presentations covering everything from career pathways in fusion to recently digitized archival nuclear films, 40 of them made their way to the hotel’s fifth floor to take part in the second offering of Nuclear 101, a newly designed certification course that seeks to give professionals who are in or adjacent to the industry an in-depth understanding of the essentials of nuclear energy and engineering from some of the field’s leading experts.
Technical Session
Wednesday, May 11, 2022|10:30AM–12:30PM EDT|Vanda
Session Chair:
Emily Jane Watkinson (University of Leicester)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Scott Wilson (NASA)
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Design and Development of the ESA Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator
Ramy Mesalam (Univ. Leicester), Richard Ambrosi (Univ. Leicester), Alessandra Barco (Univ. Leicester), Emily Jane Watkinson (Univ. Leicester), Hugo Williams (Univ. Leicester), Tony Crawford (Univ. Leicester), Christopher Bicknell (Univ. Leicester), Keith Stephenson (European Space Agency)
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Sunpower Robust Stirling Converter (SRSC) Phase III Overview
John Stanley (Sunpower), Josh Collins (Sunpower), Gary Wood (Sunpower)
Turbo-Brayton Converter for Radioisotope Power Systems
Jeffrey J. Breedlove (Creare), Thomas M. Conboy (Creare), Mark V. Zagarola (Creare)
Maturation of Dynamic Power Convertors for RPS Robotic Space Exploration
Scott Wilson (NASA Glenn Research Center), Nicholas Schifer (NASA Glenn Research Center), Daniel Goodell (NASA Glenn Research Center)
Comparative Analysis of Thermal Conversion Technologies for Deep Space Missions
Parisa M. Mirdamadi (Universities Space Research Foundation), Sabah K. Bux (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Laura J. Evans (NASA Glenn Research Center)
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