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Materials Science & Technology
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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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College students help develop waste-measuring device at Hanford
A partnership between Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) and Washington State University has resulted in the development of a device to measure radioactive and chemical tank waste at the Hanford Site. WRPS is the contractor at Hanford for the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management.
Technical Session
Tuesday, May 10, 2022|1:30–3:30PM EDT|Calypso
Session Chair:
John Scott (NASA)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Leonard Dudzinski (NASA)
Four presentations from U.S. and international contributors, discussing reactor, thruster, and power conversion concepts.
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High Power Electric Propulsion Thruster Trades for a Nuclear Electric Propulsion-Based Human Mars Mission
Timothy Kokan (Aerojet Rocketdyne), C. Russell Joyner II (Aerojet Rocketdyne), Daniel J.H. Levack (Aerojet Rocketdyne), Dennis E. Morris (Aerojet Rocketdyne), Brian J. Muzek (Aerojet Rocketdyne), Rodney W. Noble (Aerojet Rocketdyne), Samuel Rapoport (Aerojet Rocketdyne), Christopher B. Reynolds (Aerojet Rocketdyne), Jakob Trescott (Aerojet Rocketdyne)
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Conceptual Design of a Rotary Space Reactor with Naturally Circulating Water Driven by Centrifugal Force
Keigo Hasegawa (Tokyo City Univ.), Kazumasa Taneda (Tokyo City Univ.), Rikio Watanabe (Tokyo City Univ.), Naoyuki Takaki (Tokyo City Univ.)
Nuclear Electric Propulsion Brayton Power Conversion Working Fluid Considerations
Rodger Dyson (NASA Glenn Research Center), D. V. Rao (LANL), Matthew Duchek (Analytical Mechanics Assoc.), Christopher Harnack (Analytical Mechanics Assoc.), Robert Scheidegger (NASA Glenn Research Center), Lee Mason (NASA), Al Juhasz (NASA Glenn Research Center), Luis Rodriguez (NASA Glenn Research Center), Ronald Leibach (NASA Glenn Research Center), Steven Geng (NASA Glenn Research Center), Daniel Goodell (NASA Glenn Research Center)
Genetic Optimization of a Conversion System Based on a Rankine Cycle and its Heat Sink for a 1 MWe Space Nuclear Reactor
Carlos-Jesús Romero-Casado (CEA), Nicolas Rey-Tornero (CEA), Guillaume Campioni (CEA), Yannick Gorsse (CEA), Daniel Heuer (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Nicolas Jonqueres (CEA), Sébastien Le Martelot (CNES)
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