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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 THD|Cosponsored by IRD
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|8:00–9:45AM CDT|Northwestern/Ohio State
Session Chair:
Yang Liu (TAMU)
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Model Development of the Thermal-Hydraulic Test Loop for Potential Use for the High Flux Isotope Reactor
8:00–8:20AM CDT
Joel L. McDuffee (ORNL)
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Multiphysics Coupled Calculations Using OpenFOAM, Serpent, and External Heat Conduction Solver for Prismatic GCRs: A Case Study on HTTR
8:20–8:40AM CDT
Zaid Abulawi (Young Members Group), Ville Rintala (Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology), Heikki Suikkanen (Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology), Iztok Tiselj (University of Ljubljana), Juhani Hyvarinen (Lappeenranta University of Technology), Yang Liu (TAMU)
V-SMR: Multi-Scale and Multi-Physics Integrated Simulation Platform for SMRs
8:40–9:00AM CDT
Yun-Je Cho (KAERI), Sung Hoon Choi (KAERI), Seong Ju Do (KAERI)
Progress in Neutronics and Thermal-Hydraulics Models for NBSR LEU Conversion
9:00–9:20AM CDT
Cihang Lu (Brookhaven), Athi Varuttamaseni (Brookhaven), Peter Kohut (Brookhaven), Arantxa Cuadra (Brookhaven), Lap-Yan Cheng (Brookhaven), Gerardo Aliberti (ANL), Kyle E. Anderson (ANL), John A. Stillman (ANL), Firat Cetinbas (ANL), Dhongik S. Yoon (ANL), Erik H. Wilson (ANL)
Recent Developments in STAT7 - Thermal Hydraulics Software with Statistical Uncertainty Propagation for Research and Test Reactors
9:20–9:40AM CDT
Sero Yang (ANL), Graham S. Wilson (ANL), Dhongik S. Yoon (ANL), Lin-Wen Hu (MIT), Arne P. Olson (ANL), Justin W. Thomas (ANL), Erik H. Wilson (ANL)