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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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The predawn darkness on a cool Florida night was shattered by the ignition of nine Merlin engines on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The thrust of the engines shook the ground miles away. From a distance, the rocket appeared to slowly rise above the horizon. For the cargo onboard, the launch was anything but gentle, as the ignition of liquid oxygen generated more than 1.5 million pounds of force. After the rocket had been out of sight for several minutes, the booster dramatically returned to Earth with several sonic booms in a captivating show of engineering designed to make space travel less expensive and more sustainable.
Technical Session
Tuesday, May 9, 2023|1:30–3:10PM MDT|Idaho Falls Room
Session Chair:
Pattrick Calderoni
Alternate Chair:
Vedant Mehta
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eVinci™ Micro Reactor – Electrical Demonstration Unit (EDU) – Phase 1 Test Results
1:30–1:50PM MDT
J. Lojek (Westinghouse Electric Co.), M. A. Shockling (Westinghouse Electric Co.), R. Blunt (Westinghouse Electric Co.), A. Macdonald (Westinghouse Electric Co.), A. Page (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
Presented by Joseph Halackna (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
Paper
Development of Stirling Convertors for Radioisotope and Fission Power Systems
1:50–2:10PM MDT
Scott D. Wilson (NASA Glenn Research Center)
SpaceX Falcon Heavy Mass Constraints as Design Driver for Practical Heat Pipe Stirling Micro Reactors
2:10–2:30PM MDT
Daniel LP Watson (TAMU), Ronald Daryll E. Gatchalian (TAMU), Hui-Yu Hsieh (TAMU), Pramatha Bhat (TAMU), Pavel V. Tsvetkov (TAMU)
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