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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Sellafield awards $3.86B in infrastructure contracts to three companies
Sellafield Ltd., the site license company overseeing the decommissioning of the U.K.’s Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria, England, announced the award of £2.9 billion (about $3.86 billion) in infrastructure support contracts to the companies of Morgan Sindall Infrastructure, Costain, and HOCHTIEF (UK) Construction.
Technical Session
Tuesday, May 10, 2022|1:30–3:30PM EDT|Vanda
Session Chair:
Ron Litchford (NASA)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
John Scott (NASA)
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Neutronics Modeling of a High-Performance Gas Core Nuclear Rocket System
Rittu S. Raju (Univ. Michigan), John E. Foster (Univ. Michigan)
Paper
Baseline Configuration Analysis for Centrifugal Nuclear Thermal Rocket Engine
Mitchell Schroll (Univ. Alabama, Hunstville), Jacob Keese (Univ. Alabama, Huntsville), Robert Frederick (Univ. Alabama, Huntsville), L. Dale Thomas (Univ. Alabama, Huntsville)
Initial Experiment Designs Studying Gas Bubble Flows in Liquids for use in Centrifugal Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
Ben Campbell (Univ. Alabama, Huntsville), Mitchell Schroll (Univ. Alabama, Huntsville), James Venters (Univ. Alabama, Huntsville), Robert Frederick (Univ. Alabama, Huntsville), L. Dale Thomas (Univ. Alabama, Huntsville), David Lineberry (Univ. Alabama, Huntsville)
One-Dimensional Steady-State Thermal Model of CNTP Reactor
Jacob Keese (Univ. Alabama, Huntsville), D. Keith Hollingsworth (Univ. Alabama, Huntsville)
Three Dimensional Simulations of Bubble Dynamics in Centrifugal Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
Pongkrit Darakorn Na Ayuthya (Univ. Alabama, Huntsville), Jason Cassibry (Univ. Alabama, Huntsville)
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