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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Reimagining nuclear materials for the future of medicine
Nuclear medicine has come a long way since Henri Becquerel first observed the penetrating energy of radioactive materials in 1896. Today, technetium-99m alone is used in more than 40 million diagnostic procedures every year—from cardiovascular imaging and bone scans to cancer detection—making it the undisputed workhorse of nuclear medicine. That single statistic tells you something important: An enormous portion of modern diagnostic medicine rests on a surprisingly narrow foundation, one built around a small number of aging research reactors that were never originally designed for continuous isotope production.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Monday, June 17, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Jasmine D
Session Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Nathan J. Roskoff
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Uncertainty Quantification of Critical Boron Concentration in Tihange-2 Reactor Core Tracking Analysis Using CASMO5/SIMULATE5 with JENDL-5
3:15–3:35PM PDT
Shigeki Shiba (Nuclear Regulation Authority)
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Heat Deposition Analysis of Target Materials in the High Flux Isotope Reactor for HEU and LEU Cores
3:35–3:55PM PDT
K.M. Burg (ORNL), D. Chandler (ORNL), J.W. Bae (ORNL), D. Hartanto (ORNL), Y.E. Robert (ORNL), C.W. Sizemore (ORNL)
Monte Carlo Evaluation of Delayed Neutron Parameters for CANDU Reactor
3:55–4:15PM PDT
Zack Demers (Ontario Tech Univ.), Eleodor Nichita (Ontario Tech Univ.)
Sensitivity Analysis of the SCALE/Polaris-PARCS Code Procedure for Watts Bar Unit 1 and Peach Bottom Unit 2
4:15–4:35PM PDT
Kang Seog Kim (ORNL), William Gurecky (ORNL), Matthew A. Jessee (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
Understanding the Sampling Algorithm for Watt Spectrum
4:35–4:55PM PDT
Jilang Miao (Penn State), Miaomiao Jin (Penn State)