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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:
Xu Wu (NC State Univ.)
Session Organizer:
Hany S. Abdel-Khalik (Purdue Univ.)
Student Producer:
Khaldoon Al-Dawood (NC State Univ.)
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Impact of Covariances Estimation on Uncertainty Propagation in Reactor Core Simulations
10:40–11:05AM EDT
Gregory Kyriakos Delipei (NC State Univ.), Kaiyue Zeng (NC State Univ.), Jason Hou (NC State Univ.)
Paper
Uncertainty Quantification Study of Fuel Rod Performance With FRAPCON/FRAPTRAN for the OECD/NEA LWR Uncertainty Analysis in Modelling Benchmark
11:05–11:30AM EDT
G. Delipei (NC State Univ.), A. Abarca (NC State Univ.), M. Avramova (NC State Univ.), K. Ivanov (NC State Univ.)
High to Low Methodology for Gap Heat Transfer in an Uncertainty Quantification Framework for Depletion
11:30–11:55AM EDT
J. Fustero (NC State Univ.), G. K. Delipei (NC State Univ.), A. Abarca (NC State Univ.), A. Bennett (Framatome), M. Avramova (NC State Univ.), K. Ivanov (NC State Univ.)
Inverse Uncertainty Quantification of a MOOSE-based Melt Pool Model for Additive Manufacturing
11:55AM–12:20PM EDT
Ziyu Xie (NC State Univ.), Wen Jiang (INL), Congjian Wang (INL), Xu Wu (NC State Univ.)