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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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My story: Abraham Weitzberg, ANS member since 1962
. . . and today.
Weitzberg then. . .
My first exposure to nuclear engineering was in 1956–57 when I was a fourth-year chemical engineering undergraduate at MIT. The previous summer, I worked at an oil refinery in New Jersey and our class visited a Monsanto sulfuric acid factory in Boston Harbor. I lost my enthusiasm for chemical engineering and decided to take a couple of introductory nuclear engineering courses as a senior. After a summer job at Y-12 in Oak Ridge, I started on a nuclear engineering master’s degree program. (An Atomic Energy Commission fellowship certainly helped my decision.)
The following summer, I performed reactor physics experiments at Brookhaven with Herb Kouts, Joe Hendrie, Rudy Sher, and Henry Windsor. In January 1962, after defending my Ph.D. dissertation on measuring uranium-238 capture in lattices of uranium rods in heavy water, I headed to Los Angeles to work on SNAP reactors for Atomics International. There, I performed critical experiments and managed their aerospace safety program.
2025 International Conference on Accelerator Applications (AccApp'25)
Abstract: The need to decarbonize central power production and the recent demonstration of fusion ignition and scientific gain greater than 1 at the National Ignition facility has renewed interest in Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE). The presentation will both summarize the present state of fusion physics, and the challenges and opportunities for a program focused on IFE.
Dr. Crandall is a decorated atomic physics researcher and manager of Department of Energy science programs; cited as a fellow of the American Physical Society for experimental research with multiply charged ions, and as a Presidential Meritorious Executive for science-based Stockpile Stewardship. His experience includes 16 years of physics research, 25 years of science program management, 5 years as senior advisor to political appointees and 10 years as a consultant. At DOE he led significant scientific programs in plasma physics and fusion energy and in nuclear weapon science. He served as advisor to the Under Secretary at DOE for 4 years. He retired from the DOE in 2013 and since has been an invited conference speaker, Distinguished Lecturer on nuclear fusion for the APS and consultant for DOE and universities.
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