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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|8:30–10:10AM EDT
Session Chair:
Scott Palmtag (NC State Univ.)
Session Organizers:
Benoit Forget (MIT)
William Wieselquist (ORNL)
Student Producer:
Nicholas Herring (Univ. of Michigan)
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Evaluation of Reactor Pulse Experiments
8:30–8:55AM EDT
I. Švajger (Jozef Stefan Institute), L. Snoj (Jozef Stefan Institute)
Paper
Fast Reactor Depletion Methods in LUPINE
8:55–9:20AM EDT
Scott Palmtag (NC State Univ.), William C. Dawn (NC State Univ.), Chase Lawing (NC State Univ.)
Fuel Salt Compressibility Effects in Molten Salt Fast Reactors
9:20–9:45AM EDT
Jun Shi (Univ. of California, Berkeley), Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
Frequency Domain Analysis Of HTR-Like Microreactors
9:45–10:10AM EDT
Shai Kinast (Nuclear Research Center Negev/Univ. of Michigan), Doron Sivan (Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev), Sooyoung Choi (Univ. of Michigan), Claudio Filippone (HolosGen), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. of Michigan)
