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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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DOE selects first companies for nuclear launch pad
The Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy and the National Reactor Innovation Center have announced their first selections for the Nuclear Energy Launch Pad: three companies developing microreactors and one developing fuel supply.
The four companies—Deployable Energy, General Matter, NuCube Energy, and Radiant Industries—were selected from the initial pool of Reactor Pilot Program and Fuel Line Pilot Program applicants, the two precursor programs to the launch pad.
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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