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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|10:40AM–12:20PM EDT
Session Chair:
Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Session Organizer:
Ryan G. McClarren (University of Notre Dame)
Student Producer:
Nilay Atul Kulkarni (NC State Univ.)
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On the Use of Machine Learning (Neural Networks) to Deepen Numerical Validation of Neutronic Calculations: Basics and Application to an APOLLO3-SFR Calculation Scheme
10:40–11:05AM EDT
J.-M. Palau (CEA/DES), G. Rimpault (CEA/DES)
Paper
Acceleration of Multi-Objective Optimisation Calculations for Nuclear Burnup Studies Using Intra-Optimisation Objective Expansion
11:05–11:30AM EDT
D.J. Brennan (Univ. of Cambridge), G. T. Parks (Univ. of Cambridge)
Application of Reinforcement Learning Optimisation Methodology to BWR Assemblies
11:30–11:55AM EDT
Majdi I. Radaideh (MIT), Benoit Forget (MIT), Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
Estimation of the Axial Neutron Flux Profiles in the SAFARI-1 Core Using Artificial Neural Networks
11:55AM–12:20PM EDT
L. E. Moloko (South African Nuclear Energy Corp.), P. M. Bokov (South African Nuclear Energy Corp.), K. N. Ivanov (NC State Univ.)