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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|1:20–3:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Hany Abdel-Khalik (Purdue Univ.)
Session Organizer:
Hany S. Abdel-Khalik (Purdue Univ.)
Student Producer:
K. Lisa Reed (Georgia Tech)
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A Comprehensive Framework to Improve Predictions by Integrating Inverse Uncertainty Quantification and Quantitative Validation
1:20–1:45PM EDT
Ziyu Xie (NC State Univ.), Xu Wu (NC State Univ.)
Paper
Advanced Information Criteria Applied to IDA Benchmark Problems: Reducing the Degree of Freedom in Bayesian Approaches
1:45–2:10PM EDT
J.-M. Palau (CEA/DES), P. Tamagno (CEA/DES), A. Rizzo (CEA/DES)
Calibration of Pellet Cladding Gap Heat Transfer Model for PWR, BWR and VVER Fuel Rod Transient Uncertainty Analysis
2:10–2:35PM EDT
G. Delipei (NC State Univ.), A. Abarca (NC State Univ.), M. Avramova (NC State Univ.), K. Ivanov (NC State Univ.)
Non-Intrusive Alternative to Generalized Linear Least-Squares Methodology for Criticality Safety Applications
2:35–3:00PM EDT
Jeongwon Seo (Purdue Univ.), Dongli Huang (Purdue Univ.), Ugur Mertyurek (ORNL), Hany S. Abdel-Khalik (Purdue Univ.)
