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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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DNFSB’s Summers ends board tenure, extending agency’s loss of quorum
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The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, the independent agency responsible for ensuring that Department of Energy facilities are protective of public health and safety, announced that the board’s acting chairman, Thomas Summers, has concluded his service with the agency, having completed his second term as a board member on October 18.
Summers’ departure leaves Patricia Lee, who joined the DNFSB after being confirmed by the Senate in July 2024, as the board’s only remaining member and acting chair. Lee’s DNFSB board term ends in October 2027.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPSD
Monday, June 12, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EDT|Marriott 1
Session Chair:
Sunil S. Chirayath
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Irina I. Popova
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Prompt Gamma Measurement from the Manganese Sulphate Bath
1:00–1:20PM EDT
Martin Schulc (Research Centre Rez), Tomas Czakoj (Research Cenre Rez), Michal Kostal (Research Cenre Rez), Evzen Losa (Research Cenre Rez), Evzen Novak (Research Cenre Rez), Jan Simon (Research Cenre Rez), Jan Rataj (Research Centre Rez)
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Development of Advanced Radionuclide Gamma spectrOmeter-2 (ARGO-2) for Low-Level Radionuclide Measurements
1:20–1:40PM EDT
Manish Sharma (PNNL), Jonathan Burnett (PNNL), Ryan O'Mara (PNNL), Allan Myers (PNNL)
Limitation of the Cosine Law for Large Isotropic Sources and Small Detectors in a Void
1:40–2:00PM EDT
Jeffrey A. Favorite (LANL), William M. Schmitt (Charles Stark Draper Lab.)
MCNP6.3 Unstructured Mesh Verfication of Oktavian Geometries
2:00–2:20PM EDT
Micky Dzur (LANL), Jerawan Armstrong (LANL), Chelsea D'Angelo (LANL)
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