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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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ANS Fireside Chat introduces new leaders for ANS, UCOR
On Tuesday, during Mark Peters’s last days as the American Nuclear Society’s vice president/president-elect before assuming the presidency on June 4, he sat down with ANS CEO Craig Piercy for a Fireside Chat at the Annual Conference.
The MITRE CEO weighed in on his career path, what excites and worries him about the resurgence of nuclear energy, and juggling work-life balance with his new duties as ANS’s 72nd president.
“It’s going to be a lot of fun. It’s an important year,” he told Piercy.
Technical Session|Technology Research and Development
Thursday, April 30, 2026|10:10–11:30AM EDT|Room 306
Session Chair:
Jarvis Caffrey
Alternate Chair:
Jacob Stonehill
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Validation Efforts of Neutronic Transport Methods Applied to HALEU Fuel for Prospective Space Applications
10:10–10:30AM EDT
Catalin Alexandru Stafie (Paul Scherrer Institute), Gregory Perret (Paul Scherrer Institute), 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 Tech), Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Tech)
Validation of Cardinal Coupled Neutronics and Thermomechanics Using the KRUSTY Experiments
10:50–11:10AM EDT
Michael Anthony Mendes (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Mahmoud Eltawila (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Kevin C. Sawatzky (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), April J. Novak (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Richard C. Martineau (Sawtooth Simulation, LLC)
Accelerating Space Nuclear Propulsion Development with Analytical Radiation Source Approximations for Far-Field Environment Modeling
11:10–11:30AM EDT
Eleni Mowery (Analytical Mechanics Assoc.), Corey Smith (Analytical Mechanics Assoc.), Benoit Forget (MIT), Jarvis Caffrey (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
