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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NRC discontinues spent fuel pool rulemaking
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is discontinuing its rulemaking activity, “Long-Term and Unattended Water Makeup of Spent Fuel Pools,” and denying a petition for rulemaking. The new rule, as requested by the petitioner, would have required nuclear power plant licensees to ensure that their spent nuclear fuel pools are capable of cooling and maintaining water levels during extended power outages.
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)
Paper
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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