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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Hanford contractor settles fraud suit for $3.45M
Hanford Site services contractor Hanford Mission Integration Solutions (HMIS) has agreed to pay the Department of Justice $3.45 million as part of a settlement agreement resolving allegations that HMIS overcharged the Department of Energy for millions of dollars in labor hours at the nuclear site in Washington state.
Technical Session|Architectures, Missions, and Use Cases
Thursday, April 30, 2026|8:00–9:20AM EDT|Room 306
Session Chair:
Patrick Frye (Blue Origin)
Alternate Chair:
Leonard A. Dudzinski (NASA Headquarters)
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European Space Agency – European autonomous access to space and operational capabilities through Nuclear Power Sources launch capacity
8:00–8:20AM EDT
David le falc'her (European Space Agency), Christophe Fongarland (European Space Agency), gauthier poullin (Airbusprotect), frederic lattwein (Arianegroup), cedric lemarié (Arianegroup), yannick Herlem (Arianegroup), pierre coquay (European Space Agency), denis Rebuffat (European Space Agency)
Paper
Development of Figures of Merit for Size, Weight, Power and Cost Comparison of Solar and Nuclear Space Power Systems
8:20–8:40AM EDT
C. A. Lenyk (Astrion), J.E. Winter (Air Force Research Lab), P.M. Carpenter (Astrion), N.A. Johansson (Astrion), T.J. Allen (Astrion), M.C. Tomb (Astrion), K. M. Church (Astrion), S. K. Fairchild (Astrion)
Coupling Mission Requirements with System-Level Analysis for Rapid Evaluation of Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Architectures
8:40–9:00AM EDT
Sonal Mehta (Georgia Tech), Camden Eck (Georgia Institute of Technology), Robert C. Ajluni (Georgia Institute of Technology), Sabrina Mayor (Georgia Institute of Technology), Bradford Robertson (Georgia Institute of Technology), Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Tech), Dimitri Mavris (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Comparative Analysis of Space Nuclear Propulsion Systems for Cislunar Missions: Part II – Mission Design for Large Payload Delivery
9:00–9:20AM EDT
Saroj Kumar (University of Alabama in Huntsville), Alexander C. Bendoyro (University of Alabama in Huntsville), Dale Thomas (The University of Alabama in Huntsville- Propulsion Research Center)
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