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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:
Richard Vasques (The Ohio State Univ.)
Session Organizer:
Patrick S. Brantley (LLNL)
Student Producer:
Thomas Folk (Univ. of Michigan)
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Theory and Generation Methods for N-ary Stochastic Mixtures with Markovian Mixing Statistics
1:20–1:45PM EDT
Aaron Olson (Sandia), Shawn Pautz (Sandia), Dan Bolintineanu (Sandia), Emily Vu (Univ. of Michigan)
Paper
Benchmark Comparisons of Monte Carlo Algorithms for One-Dimensional N-ary Stochastic Media
1:45–2:10PM EDT
Emily H. Vu (Univ. of Michigan), Patrick S. Brantley (LLNL), Aaron J. Olson (Sandia), Brian C. Kiedrowski (Univ. of Michigan)
Amnesia Radius Versions of Conditional Point Sampling for Radiation Transport in 1D Stochastic Media
2:10–2:35PM EDT
Emily H. Vu (Univ. of Michigan), Aaron J. Olson (Sandia)
Markovian Binary Mixtures: Benchmarks for the Albedo Problem
2:35–3:00PM EDT
Coline Larmier (CEA), Eugene d'Eon (NVIDIA), Andrea Zoia (CEA)
