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November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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ANS announces 2026 Presidential Citations
One of the privileges of being president of the American Nuclear Society is awarding Presidential Citations to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding effort in some manner for the benefit of ANS or the nuclear community at large. Citations are conferred twice each year, at the Annual and Winter Meetings.
ANS President Hash Hashemian has named this season’s recipients, who will receive recognition at the upcoming 2025 Winter Conference & Expo in Washington, D.C.
M.A. Salazar, P.L. Gobby, L.R. Foreman, H. Bush Jr., V.M. Gomez, J.E. Moore, G.F. Stone
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 5 | December 1995 | Pages 1815-1819
Technical Paper | Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30418
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Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) researchers have fabricated and fielded gas-filled hohlraums at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Nova laser. Fill pressures of 1 – 5 atmospheres have been typical. We describe the production of the parts, their assembly and fielding. Emphasis is placed on the production of gas-tight polyimide windows and the fielding apparatus and procedure.
