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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.
Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2022)
Technical Session
Tuesday, June 14, 2022|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Manhattan
Session Chair:
Ralph Wiser (MIT)
Alternate Chair:
Dillon R. Shaver
Session Organizer:
Elia Merzari
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Large Eddy Simulation of Jet Interaction
John Acierno (Penn State), Elia Merzari (Penn State )
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Assessing the Structure-Based Turbulence Model Performance with Symmetric Jet Experiments
Monica Pham (MIT), Emilio Baglietto (MIT), Victor Petrov (Univ. Michigan), Annalisa Manera (Univ. Michigan)
A Precursory Investigation of the Turbulent Mixing and Thermal Striping Phenomena in the General Atomics HTGR Upper Plenum
Yue Jin (MIT), Jinyong Feng (MIT), Elia Merzari (Penn State), Hangbok Choi (General Atomics), Emilio Baglietto (MIT)
Large Eddy Simulation of a 67-Pebble Bed Experiment
David Reger (Penn State), Elia Merzari (Penn State), Haomin Yuan (ANL), Yassin Hassan (TAMU), Stephen King (TAMU), Khoi Ngo (TAMU), Sebastian Schunert (INL), Paolo Balestra (INL)
