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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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A year in orbit: ISS deployment tests radiation detectors for future space missions
The predawn darkness on a cool Florida night was shattered by the ignition of nine Merlin engines on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The thrust of the engines shook the ground miles away. From a distance, the rocket appeared to slowly rise above the horizon. For the cargo onboard, the launch was anything but gentle, as the ignition of liquid oxygen generated more than 1.5 million pounds of force. After the rocket had been out of sight for several minutes, the booster dramatically returned to Earth with several sonic booms in a captivating show of engineering designed to make space travel less expensive and more sustainable.
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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