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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Katy Huff on the impact of loosening radiation regulations
Katy Huff, former assistant secretary of nuclear energy at the Department of Energy, recently wrote an op-ed that was published in Scientific American.
In the piece, Huff, who is an ANS member and an associate professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign, argues that weakening Nuclear Regulatory Commission radiation regulations without new research-based evidence will fail to speed up nuclear energy development and could have negative consequences.
Technical Session|Sponsored by ANSTD
Thursday, November 19, 2020|2:30–4:15PM EST
Session Chair:
Jorge Navarro
Alternate Chair:
Paolo F. Venneri
Session Organizer:
Jeffrey C. King
Staff Producer:
Ashley Jiminian (American Nuclear Society)
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Surveillance Using Cube Satellite Platforms for Nuclear Security: Phenomena, Signatures, and Feasible Architectures
Mario Mendoza (Texas A&M University), Pavel V. Tsvetkov (Texas A&M University)
Paper
Magnetically Shielded RCIEC-Helicon Hybrid Space Propulsion System
Rohan Puri (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA), George H. Miley (University of Illinois), Qiheng Cai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Erik P. Ziehm (University of Illinois), Raul Patino (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign), Najam Raad (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)
Concept Designs and Considerations for Advanced Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
Mark Patterson (Southern Research Institute), Michael Johns (Southern Research), Jimmy Allen (Dynetics Inc.,), Michael G. Houts (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), Florent Heidet (Argonne National Laboratory), Nick V. Smith (Idaho National Laboratory)
ANTIMATTER-BASED PROPULSION FOR EXOPLANET EXPLORATION
Gerald P. Jackson (Beam Alpha, Inc.)
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