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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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NRC OKs I&C upgrade for Limerick
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has amended the operating licenses of the two boiling water reactors at Constellation Energy's Limerick nuclear power plant, giving the company the green light to replace the units' analog safety-related instrumentation and controls systems with a state-of-the-art digital system.
Technical Session|Isotope Production
Saturday, April 5, 2025|9:00–10:20AM MDT|Valle Grande 2
Session Chair:
Mark L. Wetzel
Alternate Chair:
Benjamin Murphy (Univ. New Mexico)
Session Organizer:
Ashley Machado
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High-Power Target Design Optimization for Ac-225 Production
9:00–9:20AM MDT
Shereen Aissi (Univ. California, Berkeley), Isabella S. Bredwell (Univ. California, Berkeley), Damanpreet Bhattal (Univ. California, Berkeley), Darren Bleuel (LLNL), Dajie Sun (LBNL), Abby Lee (Univ. California, Berkeley), Rebecca Hebert (Univ. California, Berkeley), Andrew S. Voyles (LBNL), Lee A. Bernstein (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Paper
Analysis of Improved 232U Production Through the use of Cyclical Irradiation.
9:20–9:40AM MDT
Michael H. Divittorio (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Darby Walker (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Melis Y. Sakarya (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Identification of U and Th Surrogates and Their Chemical Characteristics for Chromatographic Separation
9:40–10:00AM MDT
Shams Al Azzawi (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Jessika V. Rojas (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Mahmoud Khatab (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Tritium and Isotope Thermally Activated Network (TITAN) Reactor
10:00–10:20AM MDT
Eric A. Franklin (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Gavin R. Baird (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology)
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