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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Jefferson Lab awarded $8M for accelerator technology to enable transmutation
The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is leading research supported by two Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) grants aimed at developing accelerator technology to enable nuclear waste recycling, decreasing the half-life of spent nuclear fuel.
Both grants, totaling $8.17 million in combined funding, were awarded through the Nuclear Energy Waste Transmutation Optimized Now (NEWTON) program, which aims to enable the transmutation of nuclear fuels by funding novel technologies for improving the performance of particle generation systems.
Technical Session|Sponsored by IRD
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|1:00–2:45PM CDT|Lincolnshire 1/2
Session Chair:
Londrea Garrett
Alternate Chair:
Igor Jovanovic
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Controlling Radioluminescence Performance in Gdpo₄: Ln³⁺ Nanoparticles via Thermal Annealing for Nuclear Radiation Detection and Energy Conversion
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Santiago Bermudez Naranjo (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Marlen Calix Quezada (Young Members Group), Carlos E. Castano (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Jessika V. Rojas (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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Demonstration of Plutonium Diversion Detection Methodology for Molten Salt Reactors using Gamma Emitting Fission Product Yields
1:20–1:40PM CDT
Alvin J. Lee (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Tomasz Kozlowski (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Preliminary Verification and Validation of the MITR Simulator Against Reactor Operational Data
1:40–2:00PM CDT
Alison Okumura (MIT), Lin-Wen Hu (MIT)
Variational Auto Encoder Based Generative Inverse Model for Nuclear Detector Design
2:00–2:20PM CDT
Sachini Piyoni Ekanayake (GE Vernova Advanced Research Center), Zhanpan Zhang (GE Vernova Advanced Research Center), Scott Evans (GE Vernova Advanced Research Center), Uwe Wiedmann (GE Healthcare Technology and Innovation Center), Christopher Reynolds (GE Vernova Advanced Research Center)
Application of Monte Carlo Method with ORIGEN for Salt Sample Analysis in INL's Advanced Test Reactor Test Beds
2:20–2:40PM CDT
Kyoung Lee (ORNL), Greg Westphal (ORNL), Joanna McFarlane (ORNL), Wesley C. Williams (ORNL)
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