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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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U.S. Air Force opens power reactor RFI
The U.S. Air Force wants to hear from companies that could be interested in deploying small nuclear reactors at its bases.
The request for information posted Wednesday intends to assist the federal government in identifying potential developers and “understanding the company’s capability to design, license, fuel, construct, and deploy Small, Micro, or Modular Reactor (SMR) technologies in compliance with applicable regulatory, safety, environmental, and security requirements.”
Technical Session|Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
Tuesday, May 7, 2024|3:15–4:55PM MDT|Coronado/DeVargas
Session Chair:
Erofil Kardoulaki
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Scarlett W. Paisner
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Thermophysical Properties of a Uranium Nitride-Metal Composite Fuel for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
3:15–3:40PM MDT
J.C. Schaeperkoetter (LANL), S. Widgeon Paisner (LANL), J.T. White (LANL), E. Kardoulaki (LANL), T.P. Coons (LANL), D.D. Byler (LANL), J. Rosales (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), K.J. McClellan (LANL)
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Addressing Localized Fuel Element Heating in a NERVA-Type HALEU Thermal NTP Design
3:40–4:05PM MDT
Steven Hoak (MIT), Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
TRIPLE: A Coated Particle Fuel Performance Code and its Preliminary Application for NTP Fuel Simulation
4:05–4:30PM MDT
Jongho Park (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Youho Lee (Seoul Nat'l Univ.)
Initial Modeling of Three-Phase Fuel/Propellant Annulus Design for Centrifugal Nuclear Thermal Rockets
4:30–4:55PM MDT
Dakota Santana (Univ. Alabama, Huntsville), Keith Hollingsworth (Univ. Alabama, Huntsville)
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