ANS is committed to advancing, fostering, and promoting the development and application of nuclear sciences and technologies to benefit society.
Explore the many uses for nuclear science and its impact on energy, the environment, healthcare, food, and more.
Explore membership for yourself or for your organization.
Conference Spotlight
2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
Latest Magazine Issues
May 2026
Jan 2026
2026
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
June 2026
Nuclear Technology
Fusion Science and Technology
Latest News
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:
Brendan Kochunas (Univ. of Michigan)
Session Organizers:
Benoit Forget (MIT)
William Wieselquist (ORNL)
Student Producer:
K. Lisa Reed (Georgia Tech)
To access the session recording, you must be logged in and registered for the meeting.
Register NowLog In
To access session resources, you must be logged in and registered for the meeting.
To access paper attachments, you must be logged in and registered for the meeting.
Preliminary Implementation and Application of an Electrical Equivalent Circuit for Neutron Diffusion Modeling
10:40–11:05AM EDT
Naiki Kaffezakis (Georgia Institute of Technology), Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Paper
Preliminary Investigation of Arbitrary CAD Geometry and Unstructured Mesh With 2D Method of Characteristics in MPACT
11:05–11:30AM EDT
Kyle Vaughn (Univ. of Michigan), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. of Michigan)
Development of Estimation Method for Prompt Neutron Decay Constant Using Dynamic Mode Decomposition
11:30–11:55AM EDT
Fuga Nishioka (Nagoya Univ.), Yuhei Fukui (Nagoya Univ.), Tomohiro Endo (Nagoya Univ.), Akio Yamamoto (Nagoya Univ.), Masao Yamanaka (Kyoto Univ.), Cheol Ho Pyeon (Kyoto Univ.)
A Transport Corrected SP3 Solver Development with Nodal Expansion Method
11:55AM–12:20PM EDT
Yuchao Xu (NC State Univ.), Jason Hou (NC State Univ.), Kostadin Ivanov (NC State Univ.)
