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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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The spark of the Super: Teller–Ulam and the birth of the H-bomb—rivalry, credit, and legacy at 75 years
In early 1951, Los Alamos scientists Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam devised a breakthrough that would lead to the hydrogen bomb [1]. Their design gave the United States an initial advantage in the Cold War, though comparable progress was soon achieved independently in the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom.
2025 International Conference on Accelerator Applications (AccApp'25)
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 12, 2025|1:00–2:45PM EST|International Ballroom East
Session Chair:
Steve Russell
Alternate Chair:
Bruce Carlsten
Session Organizer:
Yongqiang Wang
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Interstellar Propulsion and Power Nuclear Fusion Development Facility
1:00–1:20PM EST
Gerald P. Jackson (Beam Alpha Incorporated), Grace E. Bittlingmaier (Beam Alpha Incorporated)
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Plasma Wakefield Acceleration, FACET-II and a Wakefield Collider
1:20–1:40PM EST
Brendan O'Shea (Stanford University)
Used Nuclear Fuel for On-Ramping the Fusion Economy with Kilogram Quantities of Commercial Tritium
1:40–2:00PM EST
Terence Tarnowsky (LANL), Richard L. Sheffield (LANL), Paul Lisowski (LANL)
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