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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Going Nuclear: Notes from the officially unofficial book tour
I work in the analytical labs at one of Europe’s oldest and largest nuclear sites: Sellafield, in northwestern England. I spend my days at the fume hood front, pipette in one hand and radiation probe in the other (and dosimeter pinned to my chest, of course). Outside the lab, I have a second job: I moonlight as a writer and public speaker. My new popular science book—Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World—came out last summer, and it feels like my life has been running at full power ever since.
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)
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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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