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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:
Andrew Holcomb (ORNL)
Session Organizers:
Benoit Forget (MIT)
William Wieselquist (ORNL)
Student Producer:
Vincent Novellino (NC State Univ.)
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Multigroup Material Cross-Sections Generation With SCALE 6.2.3 for Deterministic Neutron Transport Calculations: Application to a PWR Fuel Element Analysis
8:30–8:55AM EDT
Antonella Labarile (Universitat Politecnica Valencia), Arturo Vivancos (Universitat Politècnica València), Alvaro Bernal (Nuclear Safety Council), Teresa Barrachina (Universitat Politècnica València), Rafael Miró (Universitat Politècnica de València), Gumersindo Verdu (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia)
Paper
Best Estimate Schemes in Lattice Calculations for Industrial Cases, With the Help of a New Leakage Synthetic Algorithm
8:55–9:20AM EDT
B. Vezzoni (Framatome), S. Santandrea (CEA), L. Graziano (Framatome), I. Zmijarevic (CEA)
A Group-Dependent Equivalent Dancoff Factor Cell Method Applied to AIC Control Rod Calculations
9:20–9:45AM EDT
Li Mao (CEA), Igor Zmijarevic (CEA), Richard Sanchez (CEA), Nicolas Gerard Castaing (CEA)
Fuel Assembly Analyses With Resonance Calculation Using Energy Spectrum Expansion Method
9:45–10:10AM EDT
Ryoichi Kondo (Nagoya Univ.), Tomohiro Endo (Nagoya Univ.), Akio Yamamoto (Nagoya Univ.), Satoshi Takeda (Osaka University), Hiroki Koike (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries), Kazuya Yamaji (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries), Daisuke Sato (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries)
