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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Nuclear fuel cycle reimagined: Powering the next frontiers from nuclear waste
In the fall of 2023, a small Zeno Power team accomplished a major feat: they demonstrated the first strontium-90 heat source in decades—and the first-ever by a commercial company.
Zeno Power worked with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to fabricate and validate this Z1 heat source design at the lab’s Radiochemical Processing Laboratory. The Z1 demonstration heralded renewed interest in developing radioisotope power system (RPS) technology. In early 2025, the heat source was disassembled, and the Sr-90 was returned to the U.S. Department of Energy for continued use.
Panel and Technical Session|Fusion and Plasma Physics
Saturday, April 15, 2023|10:15–11:35AM EDT|Student Union 262B
Session Chair:
Promise Adebayo-Ige (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Alternate Chair:
Cade Abbott (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Session Organizer:
Lance M. Drouet (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
This session is sponsored by the ANS Fusion Energy Division.
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High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering Based Ablator Development for Laser-Fusion Applications
10:15–10:35AM EDT
Steven L. Frankowski (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Hongwei Xu (General Atomics), Priya Raman (General Atomics), Haibo Huang (General Atomics)
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Modular RF Compensated Langmuir Probe Design and Analysis
10:35–10:55AM EDT
Matthew E. Koska (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Davin U. Hess (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Sputtered Ion Measurements of an Oxidized Boron and Lithium Coating Exposed to Low-Energy Ions
10:55–11:15AM EDT
Braden T. Moore (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Shota Abe (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Bruce Koel (Princeton Univ.), Euichan Jung (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
Dynamic Lithium Corrosion of Fusion Relevant Substrates
11:15–11:35AM EDT
Emily Greene (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Cody Moynihan (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Steven A. Stemmley (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), David N. Ruzic (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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