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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Highlights from first panel of the 2026 ANS Annual Conference
Yesterday, the American Nuclear Society’s Annual Conference got off to an exciting start with an opening plenary that in its first half featured extensive commentary from ANS CEO Craig Piercy, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Ho Nieh, the Department of Energy’s Michael Goff, and several others key leaders in the U.S. nuclear industry.
Technical Session
Monday, May 8, 2023|10:30AM–12:10PM MDT|Boise Room
Session Chair:
Kelsa B. Palomares
Alternate Chair:
Vedant Mehta
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Rolls-Royce Space Micro Nuclear Programme
10:30–10:50AM MDT
Jonathan Adams (Rolls-Royce)
Key Technologies for Korean Space Heat Pipe Reactor
10:50–11:10AM MDT
Chan Soo Kim (KAERI), Sung Nam Lee (KAERI), Byung Ha Park (KAERI), Sung Hoon Choi (KAERI), Sooseok Yang (Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
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From the Moon to Mars and the Future for Space Nuclear
11:10–11:30AM MDT
Mikaela Blood (Lockheed Martin Space), Matthew Granger (Lockheed Martin Space), Barbara Fisher (Lockheed Martin Space), Timothy Cichan (Lockheed Martin Space), Nathan Kuehl (Lockheed Martin Space)
Heat Rejection Systems for Nuclear-Powered Spacecraft
11:30–11:50AM MDT
Adon Delgado Jr. (Aerospace Corp.), Matthew Harrison (Aerospace Corp.), Abdiel Agramonte-Moreno (Aerospace Corp.), John P. McHale (Aerospace Corp.)