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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
Thursday, June 16, 2022|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Huntington A
Session Chair:
Chuck Kessel
Alternate Chair:
Leigh Winfrey
Session Organizer:
Paul W. Humrickhouse (ORNL)
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Validation of CFD MHD Code for Liquid Metal Modeling of Tritium Breeding Blankets
Andrei Khodak (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Jonathan E. Menard (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
Paper
Transient Multiphysics Analysis of the DCLL Blanket for Fusion System Safety Analysis
Nicholas A. Meehan (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), G. I. Maldonado (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Tritium Transport in WCLL Outboard Breeding Blanket of EU-DEMO Reactor under Pulsed Operation
Luigi Candido (Politecnico di Torino), Ciro Alberghi (Politecnico di Torino), Pietro Arena (ENEA), Fabio Moro (ENEA), Simone Noce (Università di Roma Tor Vergata), Marco Utili (ENEA), Massimo Zucchetti (Politecnico di Torino)
Liquid Metal Blanket and First Wall for a Sheared-Flow-Stabilized Z-Pinch Fusion Generator
Clemente J. Parga (Zap Energy)
