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2026 ANS Annual Conference
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 FCWMD
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|4:30–6:15PM EDT
Session Chair:
Christina Leggett (Booz Allen Hamilton)
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Alternate Chair:
Benjamin B. Cipiti (Sandia National Laboratories)
Staff Producer:
Mich Leana (ANS)
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Elastic Waveform Tomography of Spent Nuclear Fuel Casks
Othman Oudghiri-Idrissi (Univ. of Minnesota), Mohammad HanifehZadeh (Univ. of Southern California), Bora E. Gencturk (Univ. of Southern California), Roger G. Ghanem (Univ. of Southern California), Bojan B. Guzina (Univ. of Minnesota)
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Oxalic Acid Dissolution System for Mercury Recovery Process Optimization
Michael Smith (Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte), Sven Bader (Orano Federal Services), Thomas Koch (Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte), Arthur Niemoller (Orano Federal Services), Andrew Straight (Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte)
SMR Gadolinia Burnable Absorber Loading Design in a No-Onsite Refueling Core Neutronics Performance Assessment
Gray Chang (JFoster and Associates), Julie Foster (JFoster and Associates), Jim Harrell (Zachry Nuclear), Mie Hiruta (JFoster & Assoc.)
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Comparison of Desiccation Cracks between Bentonite and Inorganic Microfiber Reinforced Bentonite for Engineered Barrier System
Yuan Feng (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln), Jongwan Eun (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln), Seunghee Kim (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln), Yong-Rak Kim (Texas A&M Univ.)
Development of a Heat Signature Computational Simulation for Safeguarded Spent Nuclear Fuel
Alvaro Pizarro-Vallejos (Univ. of Illinois Urbana Champaign), Michael D. Kaminski (ANL), Jeffrey Fortner (ANL)
