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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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University of Rochester and Focused Energy establish $6.9 million partnership
Focused Energy and the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) have established a $6.9 million partnership agreement to collaborate on fundamental challenges in inertial fusion energy.
Technical Session|Radiation Protection and Shielding (RPSD)
Tuesday, June 2, 2026|3:15–5:00PM MDT|Room 9
Session Chair:
Kristel L. Ghoos
Alternate Chair:
Tucker C. McClanahan (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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Development of an Accident Dose Evaluation Method Considering the Effect of Landforms Around a Nuclear Power Plant
3:15–3:35PM MDT
Masato Ohara (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries), Takuya Ikeda (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries), Gaku Sasaki (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries), Kunio Kato (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries)
Paper
Source Material Density First-Order Sensitivities in Monte Carlo Codes
3:35–3:55PM MDT
Jeffrey A. Favorite (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Dosimetry-Customized Fixed-Source in Serpent 2 Monte Carlo Code
3:55–4:15PM MDT
Ana Jambrina (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)
Surrogate-assisted Reinforcement Learning for Radiation Shielding Design
4:15–4:35PM MDT
Alexander Whitesides (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Improved Pion Thermal Model for Space Radiation Applications
4:35–4:55PM MDT
Charles M. Werneth (NASA Langley Research Center), John Wilson (Old Dominion University), John Tweed (Old Dominion University)
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