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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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I work in the analytical labs at one of Europe’s oldest and largest nuclear sites: Sellafield, in northwestern England. I spend my days at the fume hood front, pipette in one hand and radiation probe in the other (and dosimeter pinned to my chest, of course). Outside the lab, I have a second job: I moonlight as a writer and public speaker. My new popular science book—Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World—came out last summer, and it feels like my life has been running at full power ever since.
Technical Session|Computational Methods, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning
Friday, April 4, 2025|9:00–10:20AM MDT|Santa Ana AB
Session Chair:
Mekiel Olguin
Alternate Chair:
Liam Pohlmann
Session Organizer:
Ashley Machado
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Recurrent Neural Networks to Predict Reactor Operations using Physics-Informed Data and Rolling Statistics
9:00–9:20AM MDT
Jaden Palmer (INL), Ryan Stewart (INL), Ashley Shields (INL)
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Computational Error Field Validation Experiments on HIDRA
9:20–9:40AM MDT
Arnav Goyal (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Steven Gula (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Nina Mihajlov (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Daniel E. Andruczyk (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
OpenMC Validation Using Neutron Activation Experimental Data
9:40–10:00AM MDT
Saurav Bastola (Univ. Texas, Austin), Haider A. Nazir (Univ. Texas, Austin), Maximilian Vreclj (Univ. Texas, Austin), Madison Brooks (Univ. Texas, Austin)
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