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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
Tuesday, October 5, 2021|3:30–5:10PM EDT
Session Chair:
Jae Chang (LANL)
Session Organizer:
Dmitriy Y. Anistratov (NC State Univ.)
Student Producer:
Thomas Folk (Univ. of Michigan)
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A Low-Rank Method for the Discrete Ordinate Transport Equation Compatible With Transport Sweeps
3:30–3:55PM EDT
Zhuogang Peng (Univ. of Notre Dame), Ryan G. McClarren (Univ. of Notre Dame)
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Heterogeneity, Hyperparameters, and GPUs: Towards Useful Transport Calculations Using Neural Networks
3:55–4:20PM EDT
Michael M. Pozulp (LLNL), Patrick S. Brantley (LLNL), Todd S. Palmer (Oregon State Univ.), Jasmina L. Vujic (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
An Accelerated Characteristics Method Including a Spatial Polynomial Expansion for Cross Sections
4:20–4:45PM EDT
A. Gammicchia (CEA Saclay), S. Santandrea (CEA Saclay), S. Dulla (Politecnico di Torino)
Solving Neutron Transport Problems With Sharp Boundary and Interior Layers Using the Shishkin Mesh
4:45–5:10PM EDT
Tseelmaa Byambaakhuu (The Ohio State Univ.), Dean Wang (The Ohio State Univ.)
