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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|Technology Research and Development
Thursday, April 30, 2026|10:10–11:30AM EDT|Room 302/303/304
Session Chair:
June F. Zakrajsek (The Aerospace Corporation)
Alternate Chair:
Tyler Steiner (NASA GRC)
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High-Temperature Heat Pipe System for Stirling-Based Fission Surface Power
10:10–10:30AM EDT
Jeff Diebold (Advanced Cooling Technologies), Sandeep Hatte, Brett Leitherer (Advanced Cooling Technologies), Calin Tarau (Advanced Cooling Technologies), Srujan Rokkam, Jeffrey Hopkins
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Experimental Study on Liquid Entrainment Limit in Capillary Heat Pipes for Space Reactors: Preliminary Results
10:30–10:50AM EDT
Yohan Kim, Hyungdae Kim (Kyung Hee University)
A Reduced-Order Thermal-Structural-Neutronics Model for KRUSTY-Style Fission Surface Power with Heat-Pipe Constraints
10:50–11:10AM EDT
Vishnu P. Reddy (Georgia Institute of Technology), Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Institute of Technology), Corey D. Smith (Analytical Mechanics Associates (AMA))
High-Temperature Heat Pipes for Solid-State SPAR Reactor
11:10–11:30AM EDT
Brett Leitherer (Advanced Cooling Technologies), Mason Pratt (Advanced Cooling Technologies), Jeff Diebold (Advanced Cooling Technologies), Calin Tarau (Advanced Cooling Technologies), Srujan Rokkam
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