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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.
Technical Session
Wednesday, October 6, 2021|3:30–5:10PM EDT
Session Chair:
Agustin Abarca (NC State Univ.)
Session Organizer:
Shawn D. Pautz (Sandia National Laboratory)
Student Producer:
Aaron Tamashiro (Oregon State Univ.)
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Status of the OECD/NEA TVA Watts Bar 1 Benchmark and Monte Carlo Modeling of the "Zero Power Physics Test" Exercise
3:30–3:55PM EDT
T. Albagami (NC State Univ.), P. Rouxelin (NC State Univ.), A. Abarca (NC State Univ.), M. Avramova (NC State Univ.), K. Ivanov (NC State Univ.)
Paper
Verification of MPACT and VERA-CS for the APR1400 Benchmark
3:55–4:20PM EDT
Kaitlyn Barr (Univ. of Michigan), Sooyoung Choi (Univ. of Michigan), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. of Michigan)
Preliminary Results of the NEA FHR Benchmark Phase I-A and I-B (Fuel Element 2-D Benchmark)
4:20–4:45PM EDT
B. Petrovic (Georgia Institute of Technology), K. Ramey (Georgia Institute of Technology), I. Hill (OECD/Nuclear Energy Agency), E. Losa (Research Centre Rez), M. Elsawi (PNNL), Z. Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), C. Lu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), J. Gonzalez (McMaster Univ.), D. Novog (McMaster Univ.), G. Chee (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), K. Huff (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), M. Margulis (Univ. of Cambridge), N. Read (Univ. of Cambridge), E. Shwageraus (Univ. of Cambridge)
