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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Going Nuclear: Notes from the officially unofficial book tour
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|Instrumentation, Control Systems, and Cyber Security
Friday, April 4, 2025|9:00–10:20AM MDT|Trail/Spirit
Session Chair:
Benjamin Murphy (Univ. New Mexico)
Alternate Chair:
Mark L. Wetzel
Session Organizer:
Ashley Machado
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A Gap Analysis for Molten Salt Digital Twin Technology
9:00–9:20AM MDT
Lauren Bailey (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Xingang Zhao (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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Development of Automated Data Collection for Laser-Induced Fluorescence Measurements of Fission Fragments
9:20–9:40AM MDT
George Sun (Univ. Michigan), Liana Zhou (Univ. Michigan), Londrea Garrett (Univ. Michigan), Ammon N. Williams (INL), Igor Jovanovic (Univ. Michigan)
A Comparative Analysis of Students and Trained Operators' Mental Workload in the Testing of Thermal Power Dispatch Concept of Operations
9:40–10:00AM MDT
Olugbenga Gideon (Univ. Idaho), Roger Lew (Univ. Idaho), Benjamin K. Barton (Univ. Idaho), Thomas A. Ulrich (INL)
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