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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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NRC OKs I&C upgrade for Limerick
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has amended the operating licenses of the two boiling water reactors at Constellation Energy's Limerick nuclear power plant, giving the company the green light to replace the units' analog safety-related instrumentation and controls systems with a state-of-the-art digital system.
Technical Session|Space Nuclear Propulsion
Monday, May 5, 2025|1:00–2:40PM CDT|SPOC A (Space & Rocket Center)
Session Chair:
Will Grier (NASA Langley Research Center)
Session Organizer:
Harold Gerrish (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
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Coalescence of Designed and Natural Space Radiological Environments
1:00–1:25PM CDT
Tyler R. Steiner (NASA Glenn Research Center), Jarvis A. Caffrey (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), Jonathan D. Barth (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
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Designing Nuclear Electric Propulsion Systems: Optimizing Under Mission Constraints
1:25–1:50PM CDT
Pablo Rubiolo (Univ. Grenoble Alpes), Francisco Szmandiuk (Univ. Grenoble Alpes)
Preliminary Guidelines on the use of Highly Enriched Uranium in NASA Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion Projects
1:50–2:15PM CDT
Susan S. Voss (GNNA LLC), James Werner (AMA)
Preliminary Low-Thrust Direct Trajectory Design Using Nuclear Electric Propulsion for Rendezvous Missions to Jupiter
2:15–2:40PM CDT
Monica A. Salunkhe (Univ. Alabama, Huntsville), Gabe Xu (Univ. Alabama, Huntsville), L. Dale Thomas (Univ. Alabama, Huntsville)
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