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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Katy Huff on the impact of loosening radiation regulations
Katy Huff, former assistant secretary of nuclear energy at the Department of Energy, recently wrote an op-ed that was published in Scientific American.
In the piece, Huff, who is an ANS member and an associate professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign, argues that weakening Nuclear Regulatory Commission radiation regulations without new research-based evidence will fail to speed up nuclear energy development and could have negative consequences.
Technical Session|Radiation Protection and Medical Physics
Friday, April 5, 2024|1:35–2:55PM EDT|Engineering Design and Innovation Building Room 326
Session Chair:
David Reger (Penn State University)
Alternate Chair:
Aaron Fjeldsted (Penn State University)
Session Organizer:
Jonathan B. Balog (Penn State University)
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Molten Salt Reactor Shielding Analyses Using SCALE/MAVRIC Sequence with Continuous Energy and Multigroup Cross Sections
1:35–1:55PM EDT
Rakim Hirji (Georgia Tech), Bojan Petrovic (Georgia Tech)
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Graphite-Moderated Subcritical Assembly Shielding with Borated High Density Polyethylene
1:55–2:15PM EDT
Jeremiah D. Phillips (U.S. Military Academy), Kayden Eckman (U.S. Military Academy), Aaron W. Calhoun (U.S. Military Academy), Caleb J. Lagestee (U.S. Military Academy)
Radiation Shielding Efficiency of Super-Hard Tungsten Tetraboride (WB4) Nanoparticle-Reinforced Epoxy Composites
2:15–2:35PM EDT
Furkan Erdogan (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Reza Mohammadi (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Jessika Rojas (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Modeling the Radiation Shielding Effectiveness of Hafnium Diboride Reinforced Epoxy Composites Using MCNP
2:35–2:55PM EDT
Randolph L. Snook (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Furkan N. Erdogan (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Jessika V. Rojas (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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