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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Webinar: MC&A and safety in advanced reactors in focus
Towell
Russell
Prasad
The American Nuclear Society’s Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division recently hosted a webinar on updating material control and accounting (MC&A) and security regulations for the evolving field of advanced reactors.
Moderator Shikha Prasad (CEO, Srijan LLC) was joined by two presenters, John Russell and Lester Towell, who looked at how regulations that were historically developed for traditional light water reactors will apply to the next generation of nuclear technology and what changes need to be made.
Technical Session|Detection and Analysis
Wednesday, September 11, 2024|11:00AM–12:30PM EDT|Colonial Ballroom
Session Chair:
Tsuyoshi Kohlgruber
Alternate Chair:
Kiel S. Holliday
Session Organizer:
Jason R. Jeffries
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Sensitized 248Cm Circularly Polarized Luminescence Reveals Unique Spectroscopic Signatures
11:00–11:30AM EDT
Appie Peterson (Berkeley Lab), Jospeh A. Adewuyi (Univ. Connecticut), Joshua J. Woods (Berkeley Lab), Rebecca J. Abergel (Berkeley Lab), Gael Ung (Univ. Connecticut)
Paper
Attachment — Cm-248 CPL Presentation
The Curious Case of Pu+: An Inductively Coupled Plasma Tandem Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS/MS) Investigation of the Energy Dependence of Pu+ Reactions with Small Molecules
11:30–11:50AM EDT
Richard M. Cox (PNNL), Kali M. Melby (PNNL), Amanda D. French (PNNL), Michael J. Rodriguez (PNNL), Micah P. Prange (PNNL), Niranjan Govind (PNNL)
Attachment
Statistical Lessons for Plutonium Signature Identification and Characterization
11:50AM–12:10PM EDT
Daniel Ries (Sandia), Adah Zhang (Sandia), Madeline Stricklin (LANL), J. Derek Tucker (Sandia)
CE-ICP-MS Investigation of the Gluconate Complexation of Plutonium in Different Oxidation States and of Other Actinides in the Presence of Calcium
12:10–12:30PM EDT
Janik Lohmann (Johannes Gutenberg Univ. Mainz), Tamara Kutyma (Johannes Gutenberg Univ. Mainz), Alexander Wiebe (Johannes Gutenberg Univ. Mainz), Tobias Reich (Johannes Gutenberg Univ. Mainz)
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