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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Nano Nuclear to receive $6.8 million award from Illinois
New York City–based advanced nuclear technology developer Nano Nuclear and the Office of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced on Tuesday that Nano will receive $6.8 million in state funding to establish its new manufacturing and research and development facility in Illinois.
Technical Session|Sponsored by ANSTD
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|4:50–6:30PM 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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Overview of High-Performance Centrifugal Nuclear Thermal Rocket Propulsion System
Jimmy Allen (Dynetics), John Foster (University of Michigan), Nicholas Smith (Idaho National Laboratory), Florent Heidet (Argonne National Laboratory), Michael G. Houts (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), Mark Patterson (Southern Research), Michael Johns (Southern Research)
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Preliminary Parametric Studies of a High Performance Centrifugal Nuclear Thermal Rocket System
C. M. McSwain (University of Tennessee), Darrin Leer (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Ethan Fisher (Mississippi State University), Rittu S. Raju (University of Michigan), Michael G. Houts (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), Michael G. Jarrett (Argonne National Laboratory), Florent Heidet (Argonne National Laboratory), Jonathan T. Gates (Texas A&M University)
Initial Neutronics Modeling of a Centrifugal Nuclear Thermal Rocket Engine using MCNP Code
C M. McSwain (University of Tennessee), Darrin Leer (University of North Carolina), Jonathan T. Gates (Texas A&M University), Ethan D. Fisher (Mississippi State University), Michael G. Houts (NASA MSFC), Rittu S. Raju (University of Michigan)
CNTR: Explanation of Propellant Flow and Description of Initial Experiments
Jonathan T. Gates (Argonne National Laboratory), Darrin Leer (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), Rittu S. Raju (University of Michigan), Florent Heidet (Argonne National Laboratory), Michael G. Houts (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), Thomas J. Godfroy (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), C. M. McSwain (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), Ethan D. Fisher (NASA)
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