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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Nuclear fuel cycle reimagined: Powering the next frontiers from nuclear waste
In the fall of 2023, a small Zeno Power team accomplished a major feat: they demonstrated the first strontium-90 heat source in decades—and the first-ever by a commercial company.
Zeno Power worked with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to fabricate and validate this Z1 heat source design at the lab’s Radiochemical Processing Laboratory. The Z1 demonstration heralded renewed interest in developing radioisotope power system (RPS) technology. In early 2025, the heat source was disassembled, and the Sr-90 was returned to the U.S. Department of Energy for continued use.
Technical Session
Thursday, September 29, 2022|1:15–3:20PM PDT|Seaport
Session Chair:
Ethan A. Asano (Georgia Tech)
Alternate Chair:
Ahmad Ibrahim (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Thomas M Miller (ORNL)
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Decay Dose Shielding Analysis with Hybrid Unstructured Mesh/Constructive Solid Geometry Monte Carlo Calculation and ADVANTG Acceleration
1:15–1:40PM PDT
Ahmad Ibrahim (ORNL), Tucker McClanahan (ORNL), Igor Remec (ORNL)
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Efficiency Comparison of Radiation Transport Variance Reduction Methods for Wide-Area Environmental Contamination Assay Applications
1:40–2:05PM PDT
E. Asano (Georgia Tech), S. Dewji (Georgia Tech)
An Overview of the Capabilities and Recent Developments of the FLUKA Particle Transport Code
2:05–2:30PM PDT
F. Salvat-Pujol (European Org. for Nuclear Research), V. Vlachoudis (European Org. for Nuclear Research)
Monte Carlo Delta Tracking with Next-Event Estimators
2:30–2:55PM PDT
Timothy P. Burke (LANL)
Improved Heavy Ion Inelastic Reaction Simulation of PHITS by JQMD2.1
2:55–3:20PM PDT
Tatsuhiko Ogawa (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Shintaro Hashimoto (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Tatsuhiko Sato (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Koji Niita (Research Org. for Information Science and Technology)
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