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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
Tuesday, April 28, 2026|1:00–2:00PM EDT|Room 302/303/304
Session Chair:
June F. Zakrajsek (The Aerospace Corporation)
Alternate Chair:
Tyler Steiner (NASA GRC)
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Oscillating Heat Pipes for Space Nuclear Power
1:00–1:06PM EDT
Alex Miller (ThermAvant Technologies)
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Recent Advances in Multiphysics Analysis of Failsafe Heat Pipe Cooled Nuclear Reactor
1:06–1:12PM EDT
Aanchal Gupta (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), Magdi Ragheb (University of Illinois), Rizwan Uddin (University of Illinois)
Structural and thermal assessment of Ti-H2O – GFRC heat pipe radiators for Fission Surface Power
1:12–1:18PM EDT
Sandeep Hatte (Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc.), Zayed Ahmed (Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc.), Calin Tarau (Advanced Cooling Technologies), Jeff Diebold (Advanced Cooling Technologies), Srujan Rokkam (Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc. Lancaster PA)
LEU-Fueled Natural-Circulation Microreactor for Heat Supply on the Moon
1:18–1:24PM EDT
Naoyuki Takaki (Tokyo City University)
Preconceptual Study of a Hypothesized Deep Space Surface Mission Power Source
1:24–1:30PM EDT
Jackson Place, Ethan M. Villarreal (Virginia Commonwealth University), Josh Piper (Virginia Commonwealth University), Blake Coghill (Virginia Commonwealth University), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth University), Cassie Bowman (Arizona State University)
Triply Periodic Minimal Surface Recuperator Design for a 100-kWe Nuclear Closed Brayton Cycle for Space Power
1:30–1:36PM EDT
Aubrey J. Olson (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Logan Rapp (Sandia National Laboratories), Rodney Keith (Sandia National Laboratories), David Hall, Noah Kleitsch, Rafe Smith
FENRIR: A Reactor Multiphysics Modeling Suite for Nuclear Electric Propulsion Systems
1:36–1:42PM EDT
Corey D. Smith (Analytical Mechanics Associates (AMA)), Jacob Stonehill (Analytical Mechanics Associates (AMA)), Christopher Harnack, Matthew Duchek
NEP Trade Design Studies: Comparison between MSR and HPR Concepts
1:42–1:48PM EDT
Pablo R. Rubiolo (University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LPSC), Francisco J. Szmandiuk (University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LPSC), Nicolas Capellan (University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LPSC), Gonzalo De La Iglesia (University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LPSC), Julien Giraud (University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LPSC), Ignacio Lobardo (University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LPSC)
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