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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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RIC session focuses on interagency collaboration
Attendees at last week’s 2026 Regulatory Information Conference, hosted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, saw extensive discussion of new reactor technologies, uprates, fusion, multiunit deployments, supply chain, and much more.
With the industry in a state of rapid evolution, there was much to discuss. Connected to all these topics was one central theme: the ongoing changes at the NRC. With massively shortened timelines, the ADVANCE Act and Executive Order 14300, and new interagency collaboration and authorization pathways in mind, speakers spent much of the RIC exploring what the road ahead looks like for the NRC.
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)
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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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