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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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I work in the analytical labs at one of Europe’s oldest and largest nuclear sites: Sellafield, in northwestern England. I spend my days at the fume hood front, pipette in one hand and radiation probe in the other (and dosimeter pinned to my chest, of course). Outside the lab, I have a second job: I moonlight as a writer and public speaker. My new popular science book—Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World—came out last summer, and it feels like my life has been running at full power ever since.
Technical Session|Experimental Reactor Physics
Tuesday, April 23, 2024|3:30–5:15PM PDT|Franciscan B
Session Chair:
Jesson D. Hutchinson
Alternate Chair:
Catherine Percher (LLNL)
Session Organizer:
Luka Snoj
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Pulsed Neutron Experiments in the Inherently Safe Subcritical Assembly
3:30–3:50PM PDT
D. Siefman (LLNL), W. Zywiec (LLNL), C. Percher (LLNL), D. Heinrichs (LLNL)
Paper
Critical Experiment Plans on the New STACY to Clarify the Criticality Characteristics of the Molten Core-Concrete Interaction Products
3:50–4:10PM PDT
Satoshi Gunji (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Shouhei Araki (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Kazuhiko Izawa (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Kenya Suyama (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Designing a Deimos-Based Microreactor Criticality Experiment with MCNP and Whisper
4:10–4:30PM PDT
Alexis Maldonado (LANL), Keenan J. Hoffman (LANL), Kristin N. Stolte (LANL), Christopher Perfetti (Univ. New Mexico), Theresa E. Cutler (LANL), Holly R. Trellue (LANL)
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The National Criticality Experiments Research Center: Capability Expansion and Experiments in the Last Three Years
4:30–4:50PM PDT
George E. McKenzie (LANL), Theresa E. Cutler (LANL), Travis J. Grove (LANL), Jesson D. Hutchinson (LANL), Juliann R. Lamproe (LANL), Nicholas W. Thompson (LANL), Nicholas H. Whitman (LANL), Joetta M. Goda (LANL)
Hermes Reactor Demonstration, Initial Startup and Physics Testing
4:50–5:10PM PDT
N. Satvat (Kairos Power), K. Riley (Kairos Power), F. Vitullo (Kairos Power), R. Hernandez (Kairos Power), M. Fratoni (Univ. California, Berkeley), B. Haugh (Kairos Power), E. Blandford (Kairos Power)
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