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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
Monday, October 4, 2021|10:40AM–12:20PM EDT
Session Chair:
Jaakko Leppanen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Ltd.)
Session Organizer:
Jeffery D. Densmore (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
Student Producer:
Nicholas Herring (Univ. of Michigan)
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Solving Eigenvalue Transport Problems With Negative Weights and Regional Cancellation
10:40–11:05AM EDT
Hunter Belanger (CEA Saclay), Davide Mancusi (CEA Saclay), Andrea Zoia (CEA Saclay)
Paper
Weighted Delta Tracking Performance Evaluation in the Presence of Localized Heavy Absorbers
11:05–11:30AM EDT
Valeria Raffuzzi (Univ. of Cambridge), Eugene Shwageraus (Univ. of Cambridge), Lee Morgan (AWE)
Woodcock Delta Tracking With Arbitrary Sampling Parameters in Fission and Fusion Reactor Models
11:30–11:55AM EDT
Impact of Sampling Strategies in the Polynomial Chaos Surrogate Construction for Monte Carlo Transport Applications
11:55AM–12:20PM EDT
Gianluca Geraci (Sandia), Aaron J. Olson (Sandia)
