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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 306
Session Chair:
June F. Zakrajsek (The Aerospace Corporation)
Alternate Chair:
Tyler Steiner (NASA GRC)
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Validation efforts of neutronic transport methods applied to HALEU fuel for prospective space applications
10:10–10:30AM EDT
Catalin A. Stafie (Paul Scherrer Institute), Gregory Perret (Paul Scherrer Institut), Alexander Vasiliev (Paul Scherrer Institute), Hakim FERROUKHI (Paul Scherrer Institute)
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Analysis of the XE Prime Experimental Reactor at Wet Conditions
10:30–10:50AM EDT
Camden Eck (Georgia Institute of Technology), Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Validation of Cardinal Coupled Neutronics and Thermomechanics Using the KRUSTY Experiments
10:50–11:10AM EDT
Michael Anthony Mendes (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign), Mahmoud Eltawila (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Kevin Sawatzky, April J. Novak (University of Illinois), Richard Martineau (Sawtooth Simulation, LLC)
Accelerating Space Nuclear Propulsion Development with Semi-Analytical Radiation Source Approximations for Far-Field Environment Modeling
11:10–11:30AM EDT
Eleni T. Mowery (Analytical Mechanics Associates), Corey D. Smith (Analytical Mechanics Associates (AMA)), Benoit Forget (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jarvis A. Caffrey (NASA - MSFC)
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