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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Smarter waste strategies: Helping deliver on the promise of advanced nuclear
At COP28, held in Dubai in 2023, a clear consensus emerged: Nuclear energy must be a cornerstone of the global clean energy transition. With electricity demand projected to soar as we decarbonize not just power but also industry, transport, and heat, the case for new nuclear is compelling. More than 20 countries committed to tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050. In the United States alone, the Department of Energy forecasts that the country’s current nuclear capacity could more than triple, adding 200 GW of new nuclear to the existing 95 GW by mid-century.
Technical Session|Space Nuclear Propulsion
Wednesday, May 7, 2025|3:15–4:55PM CDT|Salon EF (Marriott)
Session Chair:
Elora Kurz (NASA Langley Research Center)
Track Organizer:
Harold Gerrish (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
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Assessment of Reduced Order Thermal Modeling Assumptions for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
3:15–3:40PM CDT
Corey Smith (AMA), Jacob Stonehill (AMA), Daria Nikitaeva (AMA), Matthew Duchek (AMA)
Paper
A Preliminary Computational Thermal Model of the Centrifugal Nuclear Thermal Rocket
3:40–4:05PM CDT
Nicholas DeFranzo (Univ. Rhode Island), Bahram Nassersharif (Univ. Rhode Island)
Verification of a Reduced-Order, Thermal-Hydraulic Code Using Higher-Order Analysis Tools
4:05–4:30PM CDT
Jonathon Thomsen (Georgia Tech), Camden Eck (Georgia Tech), Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Tech)
Ensemble Kalman Smoothing for Estimating Unknown Heat Source in a Transient Thermal System
4:30–4:55PM CDT
Haeseong Kim (MIT), Sacit M. Cetiner (INL), Arunkumar Seshadri (MIT), Matteo Bucci (MIT)
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