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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Katy Huff on the impact of loosening radiation regulations
Katy Huff, former assistant secretary of nuclear energy at the Department of Energy, recently wrote an op-ed that was published in Scientific American.
In the piece, Huff, who is an ANS member and an associate professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign, argues that weakening Nuclear Regulatory Commission radiation regulations without new research-based evidence will fail to speed up nuclear energy development and could have negative consequences.
Technical Session|Sponsored by NCSD
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Jasmine G
Session Chair:
Katy Worrell
Alternate Chair:
Amy E. van der Vyver
Session Organizer:
Benjamin Martin
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Impact of Increased Monte Carlo Parameters on Sensitivity Calculations with SCALE
3:15–3:35PM PDT
Travis M. Greene (ORNL), Kursat Bekar (ORNL)
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Jemima Plate Characterization
3:35–3:55PM PDT
J. Lamproe (LANL), K. Amundson (LANL), T. Cutler (LANL), K. Stolte (LANL)
Presented by Zachariah Rudy Lemke (LANL)
Investigating a Potential Hafnium Bias in SCALE
3:55–4:15PM PDT
T.M. Greene (ORNL), W.J. Marshall (ORNL), M.T. Brandt (U.S. Naval Academy), L.M. Mulig (U.S. Naval Academy), S.R. Blair (U.S. Naval Academy), A.M. Shaw (ORNL)
Chlorine Worth Study and Nuclear Data
4:15–4:35PM PDT
Nicholas W. Thompson (LANL), Theresa Cutler (LANL), Kelsey Amundson (LANL), Jeffrey A. Favorite (LANL), Travis Grove (LANL), Jesson Hutchinson (LANL), Noah Kleedtke (LANL)
ANS-8 Nuclear Criticality Safety Standards -- Are they Risk Informed, Performance Based?
4:35–4:55PM PDT
Douglas G. Bowen (ORNL)
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