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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
Wednesday, October 6, 2021|8:30–10:10AM EDT
Session Chair:
Ryan McClarren (University of Notre Dame)
Session Organizer:
Student Producer:
William Dawn (N)
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Perturbed Dynamic Mode Decomposition Acceleration of Source Iteration for Fixed-Source Neutron Transport Problems
8:30–8:55AM EDT
Nickolas J. Adamowicz (Univ. of Michigan)
Paper
233U Nuclear Data Evaluation Using Machine Learning Generated Cross Sections
8:55–9:20AM EDT
Pedro Vicente-Valdez (Univ. of California, Berkeley), Lee Bernstein (Univ. of California, Berkeley), Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
Reduced Models for Nuclear Data in Transport Problems
9:20–9:45AM EDT
B. Whewell (Univ. of Notre Dame), Ryan G. McClarren (Univ. of Notre Dame)
Simulated Annealing for Group Structure Optimization
9:45–10:10AM EDT
Thomas Saller (LANL)