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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Chernobyl at 40 years: Looking back at Nuclear News
Sunday, April 26, at 1:23 a.m. local time will mark 40 years since the most severe nuclear accident in history: the meltdown of Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union.
In the ensuing four decades, countless books, documentaries, articles, and conference sessions have examined Chernobyl’s history and impact from various angles. There is a similar abundance of outlooks in the archives of Nuclear News, where hundreds of scientists, advocates, critics, and politicians have shared their thoughts on Chernobyl over the years. Today, we will take a look at some highlights from the pages of NN to see how the story of Chernobyl evolved over the decades.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPSD
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|10:00–11:45AM PDT|Banyan C
Session Chair:
Adam Hecht
Alternate Chair:
Alexander Barzilov
Session Organizer:
Irina I. Popova
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MCNP6 Evaluation of Exposure Dose Rates from a 252Cf-Based Neutron Irradiator for NAA
10:00–10:20AM PDT
Livia Fernandes Barros (MIT), Jiankai Yu (MIT), Michael Philip Short (MIT), Tolga Durak (MIT), Edward Lamere (MIT), Mitchell S. Galanek (MIT), Akmal Safarov (Samarkand State Univ.), Haruko M. Wainwright (MIT)
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Improvements on Oktavian Modeling with MCNP6.3
10:20–10:40AM PDT
Micky Dzur (LANL), Jerawan Armstrong (LANL), Chelsea D'Angelo (LANL)
Automated Vector Analysis Using Particle Swarm Optimization
10:40–11:00AM PDT
John C. Stooksbury (Bechtel)
Solution Grown Hybrid Halide Perovskite Single Crystals for Photon Detectors
11:00–11:20AM PDT
Kaleab Ayalew (Univ. Nevada, Las Vegas), Shea Tonkinson (Univ. New Mexico), Alexandria Ragsdale (Univ. New Mexico), Maya Narayanan Kutty (Univ. New Mexico), Ganesh Balakrishnan (Univ. New Mexico), Adam Hecht (Univ. New Mexico), Jaeyun Moon (Univ. Nevada, Las Vegas), Alexander Barzilov (Univ. Nevada, Las Vegas)
Tempest™: A Monte Carlo Code for Radiation Transport with Combined Native CAD and CSG Geometries
11:20–11:30AM PDT
Carl Hughes (Orthrus Software), Peter Taylor (Orthrus Software), Daniel Cork (Cerberus Nuclear)
Attachment — Tempest Paper
Integrating AI Assistant Technology into Cyclone™ for Simplified MCNP® Syntax Generation
11:30–11:40AM PDT
Daniel Cork (Cerberus Nuclear), John Billingsley (Cerberus Nuclear), Tu Nguyen (Cerberus Nuclear), Andrew Smith (Cerberus Nuclear), Peter Taylor (Orthrus Software)
Attachment — Cyclone Sage Paper
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