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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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More than half of material thefts reported to IAEA occurred during transport
The International Atomic Energy Agency has said that more than half of all thefts of nuclear and other radioactive material reported to the agency’s Incident and Trafficking Database (ITDB) since 1993 occurred during authorized transport, with the share rising to nearly 70 percent in the past decade. The ITDB covers incidents involving nuclear material, radioisotopes, and radioactively contaminated material.
Technical Session|Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Wednesday, April 30, 2025|10:00–11:40AM MDT|Horace Tabor
Session Chair:
Ben Whewell (LANL)
Alternate Chair:
Chris Brady (NCSU)
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Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — Martin Desombre
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — Frederico Grimaldi
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — Timothy Franck
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Harmonic Analysis of a Repositioning Plan Optimization Problem
10:00–10:25AM MDT
Martin Desombre (Univ. Littoral Cote d'Opale), Baptiste Magnaudet (CEA), Jean-Michel Do (CEA), Jean Fromentin (Univ. Littoral Cote d'Opale), Sébastien Verel (Univ. Littoral Cote d'Opale)
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Sequential Optimal Experimental Design for Efficient Learning of Reduced Order Models with Application to Microreactor Pin Powers
10:25–10:50AM MDT
Brendan Kochunas (Univ. Michigan), Nazmul Hossain (Univ. Michigan), Dean Price (Univ. Michigan)
Physics-Informed ML using RAPID for Predicting Eigenvalue and 3-D Fission Distribution in JSI TRIGA Mark-II Research Reactor
10:50–11:15AM MDT
Timothy Franck (Virginia Tech), Alireza Haghighat (Virginia Tech), Luka Snoj (Jožef Stefan Institute)
Designing Energy Discretisations Using a Genetic Algorithm for Sensitivity Studies in Lead-Cooled Fast Reactors Using a Genetic Algorithm
11:15–11:40AM MDT
Emilie Delvaux (Université libre de Bruxelles), Federico Grimaldi (Université libre de Bruxelles), Nicoló Abrate (Politecnico di Torino), Alex Aimetta (Politecnico di Torino), Mattia Massone (ENEA), Victor J. Casas-Molina (SCK CEN), Antonin Krása (SCK CEN), Pierre-Etienne Labeau (Université libre de Bruxelles)
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