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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|Sponsored by Fusion Energy & Plasmas
Saturday, April 16, 2022|9:45–11:15AM CDT|Excellence Room
Sponsored by ANS Fusion Energy Division
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Design and Analysis of an Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) Power Plant
Julian Kinney (Univ. Michigan), Benjamin Thompson (Univ. Michigan), Yifan Gui (Univ. Michigan), Elijah J. Wilson (Univ. Michigan)
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Optimization of Simplified Affordable, Robust, Compact Reactor Designs Through Coupled Multiphysics Modeling
Jack W. Fletcher (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Vittorio Badalassi (ORNL), Jin Whan Bae (ORNL), Arpan Sircar (ORNL)
Timed Resolved Ion Energy Distribution Functions During a HiPIMS Discharge
Kira Martin (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Zachary J. Jeckell (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Center for Plasma and Material Interaction), David Barlaz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Center for Plasma and Material Interaction), Wolfgang Huber (Starfire Industries), David N. Ruzic (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Center for Plasma and Material Interaction)
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