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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
Monday, May 5, 2025|3:15–4:55PM CDT|SPOC B (Space & Rocket Center)
Session Chair:
Jarvis Caffrey (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
Track Organizer:
Harold Gerrish (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
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Effects of Microstructure on Hydrogen Retention in Metal Hydride Moderators
3:15–3:21PM CDT
Jianqi Xi (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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Hydrogen Corrosion Model of Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Carbide Fuels
3:21–3:27PM CDT
Kai E. Duemmler (LANL), Christopher Matthews (LANL), Erofili Kardoulaki (LANL), Michael W. D. Cooper (LANL)
Global HTGR Effort and Supply Chain
3:27–3:33PM CDT
Peter Ewing (Colorado Nuclear Alliance)
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — NETS Final Slides
Electrodeposition of a Protective Zirconium Coating on Uranium Nitride
3:33–3:39PM CDT
Jarom Chamberlain (LANL), Adrien Terricabras (LANL), Rami Batrice (LANL), Tim Coons (LANL), Marisa Monreal (LANL)
Effects of Hydrogen Environment Testing on Zirconium Carbide Material
3:39–3:45PM CDT
Scarlett Widgeon Paisner (LANL), Joseph C. Schaeperkoetter (LANL), Tyler J. Gerczak (ORNL), Matt Kurley (ORNL), Dylan Richardson (ORNL), Amanda Greenlaw (BWX Technologies), John Salasin (BWX Technologies), Sabrina McCoy (BWX Technologies), Sabyasachi Sen (Univ. California, Davis), Erofili Kardoulaki (LANL), Kenneth McClellan (LANL)
Advances in the Modeling and Simulation of NTPs Using OpenFOAM and OpenModelica
3:45–3:51PM CDT
Carlo Fiorina (TAMU), Benjamin Stroup (TAMU), Zachary Hughes (TAMU), Thomas Guilbaud (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Giovanni Nervi (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Alessandro Scolaro (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
Thermophysical Properties of Refractory Carbides as NTP Surrogate Fuel
3:51–3:57PM CDT
Alexander T. Nadermann (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Jonas Kessing (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Praveen Negi (Stony Brook Univ.), David Sprouster (Stony Brook Univ.), Lance Snead (Stony Brook Univ.), Steven J. Zinkle (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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Sintering Behavior and Homogeneity of Ti-Containing Tri-Carbides for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
3:57–4:03PM CDT
Ethan Payne (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Alex Nadermann (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Sean Drewry (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Steven Zinkle (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Design Activities of In-Situ Hydrogen Loops at MIT Reactor
4:03–4:09PM CDT
Patrick D. Riley (MIT), Nesrin O. Cetiner (MIT), David M. Carpenter (MIT), Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
High Temperature, Reactor Irradiation of Surrogate Coated Particle Fuel for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
4:09–4:15PM CDT
Brandon A. Wilson (ORNL), Emily N. Hutchins (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Eddie Lopez Honorato (ORNL), N. Dianne Ezell Bull (ORNL)
Nuclear Thermal Rocket Emulator for a Hardware in the Loop Testbed
4:15–4:21PM CDT
Brandon A. Wilson (ORNL), Wesley Williams (ORNL), Jono McConnell (ORNL), Craig Gray (ORNL), Charles Taylor (Louisiana State), N. Dianne Bull Ezell (ORNL)
Progress Toward Transient System Modeling of the Centrifugal Nuclear Thermal Rocket
4:21–4:27PM CDT
Taylor Hampson (MIT), Gyutae Park (MIT), Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
Preliminary Investigation on UZrCN Formation via Hydrogen Cyanide Synthesis for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Applications
4:27–4:33PM CDT
James Zillinger (INL), Sarah Hamilton (INL)
Fabrication of Fuel Geometries via Fused Deposition Modeling 3D Printing and Spark Plasma Sintering for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Applications
4:33–4:39PM CDT
Nathaniel Cavanaugh (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Jie Lian (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
ZrC Insulators for Space Nuclear Propulsion
4:39–4:45PM CDT
Bryant Kanies (LANL), Maria Kosmidou (LANL), Joseph Schaeperkoetter (LANL), Miles Beaux (LANL), Scarlett Widgeon Paisner (LANL), Erofili Kardoulaki (LANL)
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