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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 OPD
Wednesday, June 15, 2022|10:15AM–12:00PM PDT|San Simeon A
Session Chair:
W. Neal Mann (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
Tim Crook (MCR Performance Solutions)
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Microreactor Deployment for Rapid Power Supply in Emergency/Natural Disaster Situations
Sola Talabi (Pittsburgh Technical), Rohan Biwalkar (Pittsburgh Technical)
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Assessment of Moving Packed Bed Heat Exchangers to Dispatch Process Heat from Micro-Reactors
Zayed Ahmed (Kansas State), Hitesh Bindra (Kansas State)
Presented by T-Ying Lin (Kansas State)
Scaling Siting Criteria and Alternative Licensing Pathways for Micro-Reactors
Edward J. Garcia (MIT), Lucy Nester (MIT), Jacopo Buongiorno (MIT)
Opportunities for Advanced Mobile Reactors in Times of Disaster and War
Aaron Horwood (Univ. South Carolina), Travis Knight (Univ. South Carolina)
Locational Variance in Nuclear Micro-Reactor Performance Under Microgrid Conditions
Ryan Dailey (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Ben Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)