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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Aalo Atomics discusses the road ahead
Arafat
Yasir Arafat, president and chief technology officer of Aalo Atomics, participated in the first day of sessions at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s annual Regulatory Information Conference (RIC). There, he recapped some of the company’s recent milestones and revealed new details on what lies ahead for Aalo.
His attendance at the event coincided with a number of announcements in the past two weeks. Those announcements covered new contracts with Global Nuclear Fuel and Baker Hughes, the release of a new strategic roadmap, the completion of fuel enrichment by Urenco USA, and a new approval from the Department of Energy.
Technical Session|Radioisotope Power Systems
Wednesday, May 7, 2025|10:00–11:40AM CDT|Salon EF (Marriott)
Session Chairs:
Chris Whiting (NASA Glenn Research Center)
Emily Hsu (DOE)
Track Organizer:
Harold Gerrish (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
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Modeling the Performance of a Cascaded Thermionic-Thermoelectric Energy Conversion System for Space Nuclear Power Systems
10:00–10:25AM CDT
Elizabeth D. Juette (Univ. California, Berkeley), Van P. Carey (Univ. California, Berkeley), Jean-Pierre Fleurial (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Paper
A Mixed Methods Approach to Modeling Performance Losses In Thermoelectric Generators Due to Material Sublimation
10:25–10:50AM CDT
Carter D. Gassler (Univ. Pittsburgh), Michael J. Durka (Univ. Pittsburgh), Matthew M. Barry (Univ. Pittsburgh)
Qualification Testing of the ESA Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator
10:50–11:15AM CDT
Ramy Mesalam (Univ. Leicester), Alessandra Barco (Univ. Leicester), Rob Tute (Univ. Leicester), Kris Bell (Univ. Leicester), Hannah Sargeant (Univ. Leicester), Emily Jane Watkinson (Univ. Leicester), Tony Crawford (Univ. Leicester), Christopher Bicknell (Univ. Leicester), Richard Ambrosi (Univ. Leicester), Christophe Fongarland (ESA)
Testing and Characterization of Industrial Thermoelectric Modules for Space Applications
11:15–11:40AM CDT
Kenton Sherick (Univ. Dayton Research Institute), Boyd Allen Tolson (Univ. Dayton Research Institute), Matthew Johnson (Univ. Dayton Research Institute), Asa Palmer (Univ. Dayton Research Institute), Christopher Venturella (Univ. Dayton Research Institute), Rebecca Hoffman (Univ. Dayton Research Institute), Chadwick Barklay (Univ. Dayton Research Institute)
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