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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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’Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house
No electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged by the chimney with care
With the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
Technical Session|Sponsored by OPD
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|4:50–6:30PM EST
Session Chair:
Hitesh Bindra (Kansas State Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
W. Neal Mann (The University of Texas at Austin)
Session Organizer:
Staff Producer:
Paul LaTour (American Nuclear Society)
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Fission Batteries: Definition, Key Attributes, and Research and Development Needs
Vivek Agarwal (Idaho National Laboratory), Jess C. Gehin (Idaho National Laboratory), Youssef A. Ballout (Idaho National Laboratory)
Paper
Limits of Fission Battery Design: Sodium-Cooled Thermal-Spectrum Fission Battery
Charles W. Forsberg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Patrick J. McDaniel (University of New Mexico)
Limits of Fission Battery Design: Fluoride-salt-cooled Thermal-Spectrum Fission Battery
Charles W. Forsberg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Eugene Shwageraus (University of Cambridge)
Creating a Molten Salt Component Reliability Database: Initial Efforts and Path Forward
Megan E. Harkema (Vanderbilt University), Askin Guler Yigitoglu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Steven L. Krahn (Vanderbilt University), Andrew G. Sowder (Electric Power Research Institute)
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