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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|4:20–5:40PM EDT|Colonial Ballroom
Session Chair:
Marisa J. Monreal
Alternate Chair:
Kiel S. Holliday
Session Organizer:
Jason R. Jeffries
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ARIES Nondestructive Assay: 25 Years of Bulk Plutonium Oxide Measurements
4:20–4:40PM EDT
Paige A. Reed (LANL), Mitchell T. Friend (LANL), Tracy Wenz (LANL)
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Actinide-Bearing Microparticles for Nuclear Forensics Applications Using Synchrotron-Based Spectroscopy
4:40–5:00PM EDT
Lorianne Shultz-Johnson (SRNL), Rachel Bergin (SRNL), Dominic Piedmont (SRNL), Mehmet Topsakal (Brookhaven), Andrew Kiss (Brookhaven), Benjamin Manard (ORNL), Brian Ticknor (ORNL), Spencer Scott (SRNL), Simerjeet Gill (Brookhaven), Christopher Barrett (SRNL), Shawna Tazik (SRNL)
Plutonium X-ray Emission Lines
5:00–5:20PM EDT
Rachel Lim (LLNL), Alexander Baker (LLNL), Alexander Ditter (Berkeley Lab), David Shuh (Berkeley Lab), Scott Donald (LLNL), Brandon Chung (LLNL)
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