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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|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Huntington B/C
Session Chair:
Tim D. Bohm (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Alternate Chair:
Paul W. Humrickhouse
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Status of Design Activities of the DEMO Helium Cooled Pebble Bed Breeding Blanket in Europe
Guangming Zhou (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Francisco A. Hernandez (EUROfusion Programme Management Unit & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)), Jarir Aktaa (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), David Alonso (ESTEYCO), Frederik Arbeiter (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Lorenzo V. Boccaccini (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Ion Cristescu (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Antonio Froio (Politecnico di Torino), Christophe Garnier (CEA), Mathias Jetter (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Xue Z. Jin (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Marc Kamlah (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Béla Kiss (Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME)), Christina Koehly (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Christine Klein (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Ivan A. Maione (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Luis Maqueda (ESTEYCO), Carlos Moreno (CIEMAT), Ivo Moscato (University of Palermo & EUROfusion Programme Management Unit), Iole Palermo (CIEMAT), Jin H. Park (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Volker Pasler (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Dario Passafiume (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Pavel Pereslavtsev (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Anoop Retheesh (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), Álvaro Yáñez (ESTEYCO)
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Tritium Breeding and Nuclear Heating Evaluation of Solid Breeder Concepts
Felipe S. Novais (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), G. Ivan Maldonado (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Calibration of a Mesoscale Tritium Transport Model for Ceramic Breeder Materials in TMAP8 Using Experimental Data
Pierre-Clement A. Simon (INL), Paul W. Humrickhouse (ORNL), Alexander D. Lindsay (INL), Masashi Shimada (INL)
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