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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Chernobyl at 40 years: Looking back at Nuclear News
Sunday, April 26, at 1:23 a.m. local time will mark 40 years since the most severe nuclear accident in history: the meltdown of Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union.
In the ensuing four decades, countless books, documentaries, articles, and conference sessions have examined Chernobyl’s history and impact from various angles. There is a similar abundance of outlooks in the archives of Nuclear News, where hundreds of scientists, advocates, critics, and politicians have shared their thoughts on Chernobyl over the years. Today, we will take a look at some highlights from the pages of NN to see how the story of Chernobyl evolved over the decades.
Thursday, April 3, 2025|8:00–9:00PM MDT
CHARISMA Laboratory
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Limited Availability
Attendees will take a tour of the CHARISMA Laboratory and will see a JEOL NeoArm S/TEM (Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope), a Scios DualBeam Focused Ion Beam (FIB)/Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), an X-ray Computed Tomography (XCT) system, and an X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) system. These instruments are heavily used in the nuclear materials community to view fuels, structural materials, and diagnostics on the nanometer scale and gain information about the impact of the nuclear reactor environment on the material’s structure and properties