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Isotopes & Radiation
Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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An open letter to Chris Wright
Craig Piercycpiercy@ans.org
Dear Secretary Wright:
On behalf of the U.S. nuclear professional community, I offer our sincere congratulations to you on your becoming the secretary of energy.
By now, I’m sure you have figured out that “Department of Energy” is a misnomer. If the Department of Government Efficiency ever requires truth in advertising, the DOE should be renamed the “Department of Nuclear Weapons, Security, Cleanup, and Sundry Energy and Science Programs.” That’s because more than 60 percent of the DOE’s budget is dedicated to “atomic energy defense activities”—making sure our nuclear bombs work, our aircraft carriers and submarines sail, and our Cold War messes get cleaned up.
Technical Session
Tuesday, October 5, 2021|1:20–3:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Raffi Yessayan (LANL)
Session Organizer:
Andrew T. Till (LANL)
Student Producer:
William Dawn (NC State Univ.)
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Nystrom Method Applied to the Non-Homogeneous Transport Equation
1:20–1:45PM EDT
Luana Lazzari (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Esequia Sauter (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Fabio Souto de Azevedo (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)
Paper
On the Solution of Systems of Linear Equations Arising Within the ADO Method for Solving Two-Dimensional Problems in Anisotropic Scattering Media
1:45–2:10PM EDT
Karine Rui (Universidade Federal do Rio Grando do Sul), Liliane Basso Barichello (Universidade Federal do Rio Grando do Sul), Rudnei Dias da Cunha (Universidade Federal do Rio Grando do Sul)
Numerical Caseology by Lagrange Interpolation for the 1D Neutron Transport Equation in a Slab
2:10–2:35PM EDT
B. D. Ganapol (Univ. of Arizona)
A Variation on the Response Matrix Approach for a Slab Illuminated by a Neutron Beam
2:35–3:00PM EDT
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