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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 MSTD
Tuesday, June 14, 2022|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Malibu
Session Chair:
Jake Quincey (Oregon State Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Troy Munro
Session Organizer:
Kenneth J. Geelhood
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Determining the Tensile Strength of Select TRISO-Coated Particle Layers
Tanner Mauseth (Idaho State), Mary Lou Dunzik-Gougar (Idaho State), Fei Teng (INL), Subhashish Meher (INL)
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Preliminary Fuel Cycle Analysis of the -UB2 Composite Fuels in Pressurized Water Reactors
Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Cihang Lu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Effects of Hydrogen on High Uranium Density Fuels
Adrian Gonzales (Univ. Texas, San Antonio), Josh White (LANL), Elizabeth Sooby (Univ. Texas, San Antonio)
Understanding Composite Accident Tolerant Fuel with SiCf/SiCm for NuScale SMR Model: Reactivity Behavior and Potential Future Direction
Kyle V. Bean (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Macklin Zinselmeyer (Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology), Kazuma Kobayashi (Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology), Dinesh Kumar (Univ. Bristol), Syed Alam (Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology)
