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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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ADP on track to complete major D&D work at Crystal River-3 this summer
Advanced Decommissioning Partners, a joint venture of NorthStar Group Services and Orano USA, is set to complete major decommissioning activities at Crystal River-3 nuclear power plant in Florida this summer, according to the license termination plan (LTP) the company submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Technical Session|Radiation Protection and Shielding (RPSD)
Tuesday, June 2, 2026|3:15–5:00PM MDT|Tower A
Session Chair:
Kristel L. Ghoos
Alternate Chair:
Tucker C. McClanahan (ORNL)
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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 (LANL)
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 Tech)
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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