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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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DNFSB’s Summers ends board tenure, extending agency’s loss of quorum
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The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, the independent agency responsible for ensuring that Department of Energy facilities are protective of public health and safety, announced that the board’s acting chairman, Thomas Summers, has concluded his service with the agency, having completed his second term as a board member on October 18.
Summers’ departure leaves Patricia Lee, who joined the DNFSB after being confirmed by the Senate in July 2024, as the board’s only remaining member and acting chair. Lee’s DNFSB board term ends in October 2027.
Technical Session|Radiation Detection and Imaging
Saturday, April 6, 2024|1:35–2:55PM EDT|Leonhard Building Room 103
Session Chair:
Aamer A. Bashir (Penn State University)
Alternate Chair:
Caroline Ishak (Penn State University)
Session Organizer:
Jonathan B. Balog (Penn State University)
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Energy Resolution of Scintillation Radiation Detectors for Modeling Applications
1:35–1:55PM EDT
Tyrell B. Simmons (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Tyrese Whitehead (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Aristidis Loumis-Demetrakopoulos (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Paper
Interpolation of Fast Pulses Using Tapered-Sinc Convolution on Varying Readout Methods
1:55–2:15PM EDT
Kimberly Meagher (Univ. Michigan), Tessa E. Maurer (Univ. Michigan), Shaun D. Clarke (Univ. Michigan), Sara A. Pozzi (Univ. Michigan)
Automation of Bias Creation Based on Temperature and Dose for Scatterable Radiation Monitoring
2:15–2:35PM EDT
Liam P. Waldron (U.S. Military Academy)
Machine Learning Methods to Differentiate Between HALEU and HEU Spectra
2:35–2:55PM EDT
Aristidis Loumis-Demetrakopoulos (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Tyrell B. Simmons (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Tyrese Whitehead (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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