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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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The current status of heat pipe R&D
Idaho National Laboratory under the Department of Energy–sponsored Microreactor Program recently conducted a comprehensive phenomena identification and ranking table (PIRT) exercise aimed at advancing heat pipe technology for microreactor applications.
June 14–18, 2009
Advancing Nuclear Technology for a Greater Tomorrow
Atlanta, GA
Pre-registration is now closed. Please register on-site.
General Chair:
Jeffrey T. Gasser (Southern Nuclear Operating Company)
Program Chair:
Dr. Bojan Petrovic (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Assistant Program Chairs:
Dr. Charles (Chip) Martin (Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board)
Kurshad Muftuoglu (GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy)
Embedded Topical Meeting
Formerly Space Nuclear Conference.
General Chairs:
Samit Bhattacharyya (Savannah River Site)
George Schmidt (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
Technical Program Chairs:
Shannon Bragg-Sitton (Texas A&M University)
Michael Houts (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
Steven D. Howe (Idaho National Laboratory Center for Space Nuclear Research)
John Scott (NASA Johnson Space Center)
