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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|1:20–3:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Mathew Cleveland (LANL)
Session Organizer:
Jeffery D. Densmore (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
Student Producer:
William Dawn (NC State Univ.)
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A Hybrid Monte Carlo-FDSA Method for k-Eigenvalue Problem
1:20–1:45PM EDT
Jiahao Chen (NC State Univ.), Jason Hou (NC State Univ.), Kostadin Ivanov (NC State Univ.)
Paper
Error Quantification for Improved Deterministic Truncation of Monte Carlo Method
1:45–2:10PM EDT
Inhyung Kim (KAIST), Inyup Kim (KAIST), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
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General Formulation of Functional Expansion Tallies for Regular 2D Geometries in Serpent 2 Monte Carlo Code
2:10–2:35PM EDT
Ana Jambrina (LUT Univ.), Jaakko Leppänen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)
Functional Expansion Tally-Based Shannon-Fisher Complexity Metric for Fission Source Convergence Analysis in Serpent 2 Monte Carlo Code
2:35–3:00PM EDT
