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Isotopes & Radiation
Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
Standards Program
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Beyond conventional boundaries: Innovative construction technologies pave the way for advanced reactor deployment
In a bid to tackle the primary obstacle in nuclear deployment—construction costs—those in industry and government are moving away from traditional methods and embracing innovative construction technologies.
Technical Session
Tuesday, May 17, 2022|1:30–3:15PM EDT|Pointview
Session Chair:
Benoit Forget (MIT)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Benjamin S. Collins (U. of Texas)
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PWR Loading Pattern Optimization with Reinforcement Learning
Paul Seurin (MIT), Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
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Parallel Simulated Annealing with Embedded Machine Learning and Multifidelity Models for Reactor Core Design
William Gurecky (ORNL), Ben Collins (ORNL), Paul Laiu (ORNL), Tara Pandya (ORNL), Quincy Huhn (TAMU), Dave Kropaczek (ORNL)
Group Structure Selection with Random Forests
Vishnu Nair (LANL), Thomas Saller (LANL), Andrew Till (LANL), Nathan Gibson (LANL)
Extension of the PINN Diffusion Model to k-eigenvalue Problems
Mohamed H. Elhareef (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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