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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
Thursday, October 7, 2021|8:30–10:10AM EDT
Session Chair:
HyeongKae Park (LANL)
Session Organizer:
Robert Nourgaliev (LLNL)
Student Producer:
Cole Tagasuki (NC State Univ.)
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Implicit Shock Fitting for Multimaterial Shock Dynamics Using a High-Order Space-Time Discontinuous Finite-Element Method
8:30–8:55AM EDT
R. Nourgaliev (LLNL), A. Corrigan (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory), A. Kercher (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory), S. Wopschall (LLNL), P. Greene (LLNL)
Paper
Analysis of Unstable Structures in a Low-Reynolds, Horizontal Channel for Supercritical Fluid Flows
8:55–9:20AM EDT
R. Barney (Univ. of California, Davis), R. Nourgaliev (LLNL), J.P. Delplanque (Univ. of California, Davis), R. McCallen (LLNL)
Computational Fluid Dynamics Mesh Generation of the PSBT Benchmark Subchannels for Use with Nek5000
9:20–9:45AM EDT
David Holler (NC State Univ.), Nilay Atul Kulkarni (NC State Univ.), Maria Avramova (NC State Univ.)
Numerical Modeling of an In-Vessel Flow Limiter Using an Immersed Boundary Approach
9:45–10:10AM EDT
Georis Billo (CEA), Michel Belliard (CEA), Pierre Sagaut (Aix-Marseille Univ.)
