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The time has come to sign up for Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space (NETS 2026), which will be held in Dayton, Ohio, on April 27–30.
Hosted by the American Nuclear Society and the University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI) and sponsored by ANS’s Aerospace Nuclear Science and Technology Division, NETS 2026 is an opportunity to exchange ideas and knowledge, develop strong relationships across organizations, and establish collaborations to solve challenging problems across the many space-related applications of nuclear science and technology.
Technical Session
Monday, July 22, 2024|10:00–11:50AM CDT|Assembly
Session Chair:
Andrew G. Sowder
Alternate Chair:
Ben Lindley (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Session Organizer:
Arnold Lumsdaine
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Public-Private Partnerships to Address Supply Chain Challenges for the Commercialization of Fusion Energy
10:00–10:25AM CDT
Arnold Lumsdaine (ORNL)
Paper
Updated Owner-Operator Requirements for Fusion Energy to Inform and Enable Technology Development and Commercialization
10:25–10:50AM CDT
Diana Grandas (EPRI), Andrew Sowder (EPRI)
Technology Transfer and Public Private Collaboration
10:50–11:10AM CDT
H. J. Lewtas (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), A. Abdallah (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), S. Borini (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), A. Perez-Crespillo (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), L. Young (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority), T. Bestwick (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority)
Sensitivity and Reliability Analysis for Reliability-Based Design Optimisation of EU-DEMO-like Designs
11:10–11:30AM CDT
Jonathan Maddock (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority)
The SPARC Plant Control Architecture: Leveraging Modern Industrial Automation Technology to Commercialize Fusion
11:30–11:50AM CDT
Max Kleiman-Lynch (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Dominic Francia (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Anders Oberg (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Will Davis (Commonwealth Fusion Systems)
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