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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.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE)
Technical Session
Tuesday, June 14, 2022|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Huntington A
Session Chair:
Larry Baylor (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Paul W. Humrickhouse
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Automatic Inference and Control of Field Reversed Configuration Plasmas in C-2W
Jesus A. Romero (TAE Technologies), Kevin Phung (TAE Technologies), Colin Finucane (TAE Technologies), Sergei Galkin (TAE Technologies), Deepak Gupta (TAE Technologies), Marcel Nations (TAE Technologies), Kan Zhai (TAE Technologies), Roger Smith (TAE Technologies), Roberto Mendoza (TAE Technologies), Nathan Bolte (TAE Technologies), Tommy Roche (TAE Technologies), Erik Trask (TAE Technologies), Sergei Putvinski (TAE Technologies)
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First High-Power Results from the DIII-D Helicon System
Bart Van Compernolle (General Atomics), M. W. Brookman (General Atomics), R. I. Pinsker (General Atomics), C. P. Moeller (General Atomics), J. P. Squire (General Atomics), A. M. Garofalo (General Atomics), A. Nagy (PPPL), S. Chowdhury (Univ. California, Los Angeles), N. A. Crocker (Univ. California, Los Angeles), G. DeGrandchamp (UCI), E. Hinson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), A. Marinoni (MIT), E. H. Martin (ORNL), C. C. Petty (General Atomics), M. Porkolab (MIT), C. Rost (MIT), O. Schmitz (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), J. Watkins (Sandia)
Wave Coupling and Propagation from the Helicon Antenna in LAPD
Joshua J. Larson (Univ. California, Los Angeles), Bart V. Compernolle (General Atomics), Robert I. Pinsker (General Atomics), Troy A. Carter (Univ. California, Los Angeles)
Insulating Antenna Enclosures for RF Sheath Mitigation
Gurleen Bal (Univ. California, Los Angeles), Bart V. Compernolle (General Atomics), Pat Pribyl (Univ. California, Los Angeles), Josh Larson (Univ. California, Los Angeles), Troy Carter (Univ. California, Los Angeles)
Initial Commissioning Test Results of the Wendelstein 7-X Continuous Pellet Fueling System
Steven Meitner (ORNL), Larry Baylor (ORNL)