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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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DOE signs two more OTAs in Reactor Pilot Program
This week, the Department of Energy has finalized two new other transaction agreements (OTAs) with participating companies in its Reactor Pilot Program, which aims to get one or two fast-tracked reactors on line by July 4 of this year. Those companies are Terrestrial Energy and Oklo.
Technical Session|Sponsored by ANSTD
Friday, December 3, 2021|10:00–11:45AM EST |Columbia 1
Session Chair:
Jeffrey C. King (Colorado School of Mines)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Richard Howard (INL)
Student Assistant:
Caitlin Martin
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Geant4 Modeling of Energy and Charge Deposition in Satellites Solar Cells
10:05–10:25AM EST
Youssef Abouhussien (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Gennady Miloshevsky (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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Chargeable Atomic Batteries: Commercial Radioisotope Power Systems for Challenging Terrestrial and Space Applications
10:25–10:45AM EST
C. G. Morrison (USNC - Tech), D. J. Turkoglu (USNC-Tech), S. Yue (USNC-Tech)
Fusion Power Balance of VIPER Pulsed Fusion Rocket
10:45–11:05AM EST
Rohan Puri (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), George H. Miley (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Erik P. Ziehm (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Raul Patino (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Raad Najam (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Modelling Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Reactor Startup Transients
11:05–11:25AM EST
Noah Higgins (INL), Sebastian Schunert (INL), Stefano Terlizzi (INL), Ching-Sheng Lin (INL), Vincent Laboure (INL), Mark DeHart (INL)
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