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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Education and training to support Canadian nuclear workforce development
Along with several other nations, Canada has committed to net-zero emissions by 2050. Part of this plan is tripling nuclear generating capacity. As of 2025, the country has four operating nuclear generating stations with a total of 17 reactors, 16 of which are in the province of Ontario. The Independent Electricity System Operator has recommended that an additional 17,800 MWe of nuclear power be added to Ontario’s grid.
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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