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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Surplus plutonium for power reactor fuel: What’s on offer
The Department of Energy has a plan for private companies to “dispose of surplus plutonium”—about 19.7 metric tons in both oxide and metal forms—by “making the materials available for advanced nuclear technologies.” A Surplus Plutonium Utilization Program request for applications (RFA) issued October 21 describes the plutonium on offer, and the “thresholds” prospective applicants must meet.
Technical Session|Space Nuclear Propulsion
Tuesday, May 6, 2025|1:00–2:40PM CDT|SPOC B (Space & Rocket Center)
Session Chair:
Joel Krakower (NASA Glenn Research Center)
Track Organizer:
Harold Gerrish (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
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Initial Atmospheric Results for Simulating a Centrifugal Nuclear Thermal Rocket Engine
1:00–1:25PM CDT
Timothy Blackman (Univ. Alabama, Hunstville), Julia Kondrat'yev (Univ. Alabama, Huntsville), Olivia Williams (Univ. Alabama, Huntsville), Robert Frederick (Univ. Alabama, Huntsville), L. Dale Thomas (Univ. Alabama, Huntsville)
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Preliminary Results of a Multiphase Flow Heat Transfer Experiment for a Centrifugal Nuclear Thermal Rocket
1:25–1:50PM CDT
Ines de Villarreal (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), Bandar Alrugebh (Drexel Univ.), Theodore Van de Water (Drexel Univ.), Vincent Angeline (Drexel Univ.), Amine Mrad (Drexel Univ.), Mikin Patel (Drexel Univ.), Augustin Demonceaux (Amentum Space Exploration Group), Kylie Braunhardt (New Mexico State), Joel Krakower (NASA Glenn Research Center)
Progress on Developing a Prototypic Centrifugal Fuel Element Test Stand for CNTP Engine
1:50–2:15PM CDT
Spencer Christian (Ohio State), Calvin Chandler (Ohio State), Joshua Naudet (Ohio State), Rahul Ravishankar (Ohio State), Zachary Smith (Ohio State), Hao Yu (Ohio State), Will Fink (Ohio State), Ryan Halloran (Ohio State), Zain Hamid (Ohio State), Luke Horne (Ohio State), Matthew Kogler (Ohio State), Huangcheng Yu (Ohio State), John M. Horack (Ohio State)
Mitigating Liquid Over-Compressibility in Liquid-Gas Models for Centrifugal Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Systems
2:15–2:40PM CDT
Pongkrit Darakorn Na Ayuthya (Univ. Alabama, Hunstville), Jason Cassibry (Univ. Alabama, Hunstville)
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