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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Going Nuclear: Notes from the officially unofficial book tour
I work in the analytical labs at one of Europe’s oldest and largest nuclear sites: Sellafield, in northwestern England. I spend my days at the fume hood front, pipette in one hand and radiation probe in the other (and dosimeter pinned to my chest, of course). Outside the lab, I have a second job: I moonlight as a writer and public speaker. My new popular science book—Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World—came out last summer, and it feels like my life has been running at full power ever since.
Technical Session|Sponsored by OPD
Tuesday, November 19, 2024|3:15–5:00PM EST|Grouper
Session Chair:
Ben Holtzman (Nuclear Energy Institute)
Alternate Chair:
Chandu Bolisetti (INL)
Session Organizer:
William N. Mann
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Fission Battery Competition for On-Site Heat and Electricity Generation: A Review
3:15–3:35PM EST
Charles Forsberg (MIT)
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Toward Cost-Competitive Microreactors
3:35–3:55PM EST
Botros N. Hanna (INL), Rodrigo de Oliveira (INL), Mike W. Patterson (INL), Abdalla Abou-Jaoude (INL)
Factory Fabrication Modeling of a High Temperature Gas Reactor Fission Battery
3:55–4:15PM EST
Chandrakanth Bolisetti (INL), Rodrigo Gonzalez Gonzaga de Oliveira (INL), Dan McCarthy (Munro and Assoc.), Sai P. Balla (INL), Botros Hanna (INL), Abdalla Abou Jaoude (INL)
Mass-Production Techno-Economics of a High Temperature Gas-Cooled Fission Battery
4:15–4:35PM EST
Botros N. Hanna (INL), Sai P. Balla (MIT), Rodrigo G. de Oliveira (INL), Chandrakanth Bolisetti (INL), Abdalla Abou-Jaoude (INL), Dan McCarthy (Munro and Assoc.)
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