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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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X-energy receives federal tax credit for TRISO fuel facility
Advanced reactor company X-energy has been awarded $148.5 million in tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act for construction of its TRISO-X fuel fabrication facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Technical Session
Tuesday, September 27, 2022|3:50–5:55PM PDT|Seaport
Session Chair:
Martin Schulc (Centrum výzkumu Řež)
Alternate Chair:
Amir Bahadori (Kansas State)
Session Organizer:
Thomas M. Miller (ORNL)
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The Characterization of Radiation Field near PET Medical Cyclotron
3:50–4:15PM PDT
Martin Schulc (Research Centre Rez), Marek Zmeskal (Research Centre Rez), Evzen Losa (Research Centre Rez), Zdenek Matej (Masaryk Univ.), Michal Kostal (Research Centre Rez), Simon Vadjak (UJV Rez), Roberto Capote (IAEA)
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Current Status of TRIPOLI-4® on Adult and Pediatric Computational Phantoms for Radiation Dosimetry Study
4:15–4:40PM PDT
Yi-Kang Lee (CEA), François-Xavier Hugot (CEA)
Meta-Heuristic Optimization Methods for Isotope Production Target Design
4:40–5:05PM PDT
Cameron Salyer (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Sandra Bogetic (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Advancement of the Meta-Heuristic Optimization Algorithms for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy
5:05–5:30PM PDT
Christopher Busch (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Sandra Bogetic (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Chester Ramsey (Univ. Tennessee., Knoxville)
Modeling Dynamic Voxelized Biological Sample Irradiation with Non-Uniform Neutron Beam
5:30–5:55PM PDT
Eric Giunta (Kansas State), Alan Cebula (Kansas State), Amir A. Bahadori (Kansas State)
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