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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.
Technical Session|Nonproliferation, Security, and Safeguards
Saturday, April 5, 2025|1:40–3:00PM MDT|Gran Quivera 1
Session Chair:
Yuliia Trujillo
Alternate Chair:
Matthew J. Lazaric
Session Organizer:
Ashley Machado
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Spectral Feature Selection Approaches for Weapons Grade Plutonium Classification with GADRAS-DRF
1:40–2:00PM MDT
Tanner Heatherly (Oregon State), Camille Palmer (Oregon State)
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Improvements in Line Broadening for Simulating Microcalorimetric Gamma Spectroscopy
2:00–2:20PM MDT
James T. Cahill (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Patience Obasi (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Feynman-Y Measurements of Cm-244 and Cf-252 Sources with Organic Scintillators
2:20–2:40PM MDT
Oscar P. Stennes (Univ. Michigan), Flynn B. Darby (Univ. Michigan), Juliann R. Lamproe (Univ. Michigan), Shaun D. Clarke (Univ. Michigan), Sara A. Pozzi (Univ. Michigan)
Modeling of Scintillation and Semiconductor Detectors for Nonproliferation Applications
2:40–3:00PM MDT
Tyrell B. Simmons (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Aristidis Loumis (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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