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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
Technical Session
Wednesday, May 11, 2022|4:00–6:00PM EDT|Orchid
Session Chair:
Kelsa B. Palomares (AMA)
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Alternate Chair:
Dayna Ise (NASA)
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Development of Multilayered Coatings for NERVA-Type Graphite Fuel Elements -- An Overview
S. V. Raj (NASA Glenn Research Center)
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High Temperature Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Cermet Fuel for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP)
James Mudd (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Jeremy Watts (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Jhonathan Rosales (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), Ryan Wilkerson (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), Brian Taylor (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), Gregory Hilmas (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Joseph Graham (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology)
Zirconium Carbide Circular Prismatic Core Geometries by Spark Plasma Sintering -- An Empirical Perspective
Caen Ang (USNC-Tech), Tom Hinklin (USNC-Core), Brandon Connor (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Cameron Hilliard (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Sarah Yue (USNC-Tech), Tim Ironman (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Ethan Chaleff (USNC-Tech), Gavin Garside (USNC-Core)
A System Design Process for NASA NTP Reactor Testing Reference Design Concepts
J. Gustafson (BWX Technologies), J. Monito (BWX Technologies), J. Witter (BWX Technologies)
Modeling of System Response to Faulted Operation of Nuclear Thermal Rocket Engine
Jordan D. Rader (ORNL)
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