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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Leak-tightness test on deck for SRS mega unit
The Savannah River Site in South Carolina will begin a leak-tightness test to qualify the megavolume Saltstone Disposal Unit (SDU) 10 to store up to 33 million gallons of solidified, decontaminated salt solution produced at the site.
Technical Session|Sponsored by ANSTD
Monday, November 10, 2025|1:00–2:45PM EST|Columbia 9
Session Chair:
N. Dianne B. Ezell
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Trevor Parker
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Design of a High-Specific Impulse Gas-Core Nuclear Thermal Rocket
1:00–1:20PM EST
Ashutosh Sharma (Fisher College), Vinit V. Shenvi (Tata Electronics)
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Beta-VOR: Economical Betavoltaic Electrical Power for Deep Space Applications
1:20–1:40PM EST
John E. Gunning (ORNL), Robert G. Kennedy III (Institute for Interstellar Studies)
Fuse's capabilities for nuclear security and fusion energy
1:40–2:00PM EST
J.C. Btaiche (Fuse Energy Technologies Corp)
A Multi-Criteria Evaluation Framework for Siting Fusion Energy Facilities: Application and Evaluation of U.S. Coal Power Plants
2:00–2:20PM EST
Md Rafiul Abdussami (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Kevin Daley (University of Michigan), Gabrielle Hoelzle (University of Michigan), Aditi Verma (University of Michigan)
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