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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
Monday, October 4, 2021|1:20–3:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Kostadin Ivanov (NC State Univ.)
Session Organizers:
Benoit Forget (MIT)
William Wieselquist (ORNL)
Student Producer:
K. Lisa Reed (Georgia Tech)
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A Simple Reactor Core Simulator Based on VTT's Kraken Computational Framework
1:20–1:45PM EDT
Ville Valtavirta (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), Riku Tuominen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)
Paper
Molten Salt Reactor Depletion Techniques in the ADDER Reactor Depletion and Fuel Management Analysis Code
1:45–2:10PM EDT
A. G. Nelson (ANL), G.J.Y. Chee (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), M. G. Jarrett (ANL)
Development of a General MPI Coupling Interface for Multi-Physics Analysis
2:10–2:35PM EDT
A. Abarca (NC State Univ.), M. Avramova (NC State Univ.), K. Ivanov (NC State Univ.)
Modernization of ORIGEN Library Creation in the SCALE Computer Code
2:35–3:00PM EDT
S. Hart (ORNL), W. Wieselquist (ORNL), A. Holcomb (ORNL)
