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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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During a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing today, Ho Nieh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as a commissioner at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, was urged to maintain the agency’s independence regardless of political pressure from the Trump administration.
Technical Session|Fusion and Plasma Physics
Friday, April 5, 2024|3:15–4:35PM EDT|Leonhard Building Room 102
Session Chair:
Matthew Leoschke (Penn State University)
Alternate Chair:
Ashrakat Saefan (Penn State University)
Session Organizer:
Jonathan B. Balog (Penn State University)
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Liquid Metal Microdroplet Spitting in Hydrogen Plasma
3:15–3:35PM EDT
Natalie R. Weissburg (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), James Bramble (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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Fusion Materials Studies in the Radiation-Induced Defects and Performance (RDMAP) Lab
3:35–3:55PM EDT
Chase C. Hargrove (Penn State)
Results from the Helium Retention Mechanism Experiment in Stellarators (HeRMES) Campaign
3:55–4:15PM EDT
Arnav Goyal (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Andrew J. Shone (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Nina Mihajlov (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Myles Bradley (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Gia M. Le (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Steven Gula (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Daniel E. Andruczyk (University of Illinois)
The Need for Nuclear Data in Nuclear Fusion Applications
4:15–4:35PM EDT
Eric He (Univ. California, Berkeley), Andrew Politz (Univ. California, Berkeley), Elan B. Park-Bernstein (Univ. California, Berkeley)
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