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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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During a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing today, Ho Nieh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as a commissioner at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, was urged to maintain the agency’s independence regardless of political pressure from the Trump administration.
Technical Session|Radiation Detection and Imaging
Saturday, April 6, 2024|10:15–11:35AM EDT|Leonhard Building Room 103
Session Chair:
Brad Nethercutt (Penn State University)
Alternate Chair:
Daniel Holcomb (Penn State University)
Session Organizer:
Jonathan B. Balog (Penn State University)
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Development of Scalable Multi-Modality Radiation Imaging and Mapping Instrument
10:15–10:35AM EDT
Matthew A. Granados (Univ. California, Berkeley), Isabella Bredwell (Univ. California, Berkeley), Shereen Aissi (Univ. California, Berkeley), Nolan Kowitt (Univ. California, Berkeley), June Lee (Univ. California, Berkeley)
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Detection of Actinides Using Mössbauer Spectroscopy
10:35–10:55AM EDT
Matheus R. de Morais (Penn State University), Lucas Sweet (PNNL), Jon Schwantes (Penn State University)
Development of an Empirical Correlation for the Manganese Sulfate Bath Neutron Absorption Fraction
10:55–11:15AM EDT
Scout H. Bucks (Penn State University), Marek Flaska (Penn State University)
High-Resolution Alpha-Particle Detector Using Low-Cost Silicon PIN Photodiodes
11:15–11:35AM EDT
Aamer Bashir (Penn State University), Marek Flaska (Penn State University)
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