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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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NRC board to hear challenges to Dow’s Long Mott application
A Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) will hear arguments on February 26 on challenges to a construction permit application from Long Mott Energy (LME) for a multiunit reactor facility at Dow Chemical Company’s Seadrift site in Calhoun, Texas. LME is a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow.
Technical Session|Space Nuclear Propulsion
Tuesday, May 6, 2025|10:00–11:40AM CDT|SPOC B (Space & Rocket Center)
Session Chair:
Doug Burns (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
Track Organizer:
Harold Gerrish (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
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Parametric Trade Space Investigation of Particle Bed Reactors for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
10:00–10:25AM CDT
Jacob Stonehill (AMA), Corey Smith (AMA), Daria Nikitaeva (AMA), Matthew Duchek (AMA)
Paper
Nuclear Design of a Liquid Uranium-Manganese (UMn) Thermal Propulsion Reactor
10:25–10:50AM CDT
Reem Alnuaimi (KAIST), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
Methane-based Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Engine Considerations
10:50–11:15AM CDT
Daria Nikitaeva (AMA), Corey D. Smith (AMA), Matthew Duchek (AMA)
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Design of an Ammonia-fed Nuclear Thermal Propulsion System for Reusable Space-tug in Cislunar Orbits
11:15–11:40AM CDT
Elia Puccinelli (Univ. Pisa), Valerio Giusti (Univ. Pisa), Angelo Pasini (Univ. Pisa)
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