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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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The predawn darkness on a cool Florida night was shattered by the ignition of nine Merlin engines on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The thrust of the engines shook the ground miles away. From a distance, the rocket appeared to slowly rise above the horizon. For the cargo onboard, the launch was anything but gentle, as the ignition of liquid oxygen generated more than 1.5 million pounds of force. After the rocket had been out of sight for several minutes, the booster dramatically returned to Earth with several sonic booms in a captivating show of engineering designed to make space travel less expensive and more sustainable.
Nuclear Plant Instrumentation and Control & Human-Machine Interface Technology (NPIC&HMIT 2025)
Technical Session
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|1:00–2:45PM CDT|Miami/Scottsdale
Session Chair:
Angela Di Fulvio
Alternate Chair:
Shoaib Usman
Session Organizer:
Hyun Gook Kang
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FPGA-Based Log-Linear Amplifier for In-Core Neutron Instrumentation Front-End Electronics
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Kholod H. Mahmoud (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), John Leland (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Ming Fang (University of Illinois - Dept of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering), Angela Di Fulvio (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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Reconstruct In-Core Neutron Flux Distribution Using Ex-Core Detectors
1:20–1:40PM CDT
Ming Fang (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Anshuman Chaube (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Harun Ardiansyah (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Keenan Harvis (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Timothy Grunloh (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Caleb Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Tomasz Kozlowski (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Angela Di Fulvio (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Detector Deadtime Distortion in Counting Statistics and Deadtime Correction
1:40–2:00PM CDT
Abdallah Wazzan (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Shoaib Usman (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Tayfun Akyurek (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology)
Aerosol Jet Printing and Low-Temperature Sintering of Magnetostrictive Terfenol-D Nanoparticle Ink
2:00–2:20PM CDT
Nicholas McKibben (Boise State University), Joy Morin (Boise State University), Zhangxian Deng (Boise State University)
Stabilization of Nuclear Thermocouples: A Materials Science Approach
2:20–2:40PM CDT
Scott Riley (Boise State), Richard Skifton (INL), Brian J. Jaques (Boise State)
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