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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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My story: Abraham Weitzberg, ANS member since 1962
. . . and today.
Weitzberg then. . .
My first exposure to nuclear engineering was in 1956–57 when I was a fourth-year chemical engineering undergraduate at MIT. The previous summer, I worked at an oil refinery in New Jersey and our class visited a Monsanto sulfuric acid factory in Boston Harbor. I lost my enthusiasm for chemical engineering and decided to take a couple of introductory nuclear engineering courses as a senior. After a summer job at Y-12 in Oak Ridge, I started on a nuclear engineering master’s degree program. (An Atomic Energy Commission fellowship certainly helped my decision.)
The following summer, I performed reactor physics experiments at Brookhaven with Herb Kouts, Joe Hendrie, Rudy Sher, and Henry Windsor. In January 1962, after defending my Ph.D. dissertation on measuring uranium-238 capture in lattices of uranium rods in heavy water, I headed to Los Angeles to work on SNAP reactors for Atomics International. There, I performed critical experiments and managed their aerospace safety program.
Michael F. L'Annunziata
Lauren D. Thew
Jean-Francois Lucchini
Anna S. EricksonDan Kotlyar
Scot A. GreenleeJohn G. Gilligan
Ryan G. McClarren
University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez (Best Section)University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign (Second Place)Missouri University of Science and Technology (Third Place)University of New Mexico (Third Place)
Leo S. Fifield
Jim Walther
Caleb S. BrooksKatrina M. GrothChristian M. Petrie
Robert E. Einziger
Idaho Local Section (Best Overall Meritorious)Idaho Local Section (Best Recruiting Program)United Arab Emirates Local Section (Best Public Information and Education)Savannah River Local Section (Best Local Section Management)Savannah River Local Section (Best Meetings and Programs)
Advanced Test Reactor Team (INL)
Kurshad Muftuoglu
Imre and Maria Pázsit
Ibrahim JarrahJohn L. Pevey
James F. Stubbins
NURETH-19Horst-Michael PrasserJose ReyesChul-Hwa Song
Assel AitkaliyevaCatherine L. Riddle
Charles “Chuck” Kessel
Amanda M. BachmannSven O. BaderAmir A. BahadoriLake H. BarrettJames W. BehrensJacopo BuongiornoNathan A. CarstensHans David GougarH. M. “Hash” HashemianMatthew Jeffrey JasicaN. Prasad Kadambi Lisa M. MarshallKathryn A. MummahGene A. Nelson
Armond CohenAndrew R. Griffith Rafael M. Grossi and the International Atomic Energy AgencyUkrainian Nuclear Workers
N. Dianne B. Ezell
Lin-Wen Hu
Koroush Shirvan
Steven J. Zinkle
Robert L. Howard
William E. Webster, Jr.
Diversity and Inclusion in ANS Committee Founders (Lane B. Carasik, Lisa M. Marshall, and Kalin Kiesling)
Bruce Hallbert
Douglas G. Bowen
Georgia Institute of Technology - The Small, Uranium-based Molten Salt (SUMS) ReactorAuthors: Alex England, Sam Heflin, MaryEmma Hughes, Marina Polegenko, and Luke WellsAdvisor: Dr. Bojan PetrovicUniversity of Florida - (BWR) British Water ReactorAuthors: Navid A. Aslani, Madison N. Bushloper, Matthew B. Harper, Ginger Lucas, and Mitch MikaAdvisor: Dr. DuWayne L. SchubringPurdue University - Design of a Machine Learning Tool for Predictive Emergency ResponseAuthors: Zachery Dahm, Sarah McCauley Kannapell, and William Kelley Advisor: Dr. Shripad T. RevankarUniversity of Massachusetts at Lowell - SMRs and Thermal Energy Storage on Decommissioned Nuclear SitesAuthors: Mustapha Zakeri, Ankit Mishra, and Lohith AnnadevulaAdvisor: Dr. Sukesh K. Aghara
Upendra Singh RohatgiBao-Wen Yang
John Bess
Tatyana Sizyuk
Alexandra Siwy
Craig H. Piercy
Per F. Peterson
