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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|Radiation Detection and Imaging
Friday, April 4, 2025|2:40–4:00PM MDT|Santa Ana AB
Session Chair:
Alexandria S. Ragsdale
Alternate Chair:
Sydney A. Dowben
Session Organizer:
Ashley Machado
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Novel gamma radiation detectors based on PLA biopolymer detector (PLAD) sensor technologies.
2:40–3:00PM MDT
Qi Heng Law (Purdue Univ.), Stepan Ozerov (Purdue Univ.), Rusi Taleyarkhan (Purdue Univ.), Elizabeth Dunlevy (Purdue Univ.)
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Monte Carlo N-Particle (MCNP6) Transport Model Simulations of a Silicon-Surface Barrier Detector for Predictions of 232U Activity Concentration
3:00–3:20PM MDT
Gil B. Rubia (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Mahmoud Khatab (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Automated Liquid Nitrogen Cooling for HPGe/Clover Detector Array
3:20–3:40PM MDT
Parker M. Chute (Oregon State), Alex Spurling (Oregon State), Alexander T. Chemey (Oregon State)
SCRAM: Scatterable Radiation Monitoring - Photodiode Diode Detectors
3:40–4:00PM MDT
Brandon A. Spence (U.S. Military Academy), Kimberly Munro (U.S. Military Academy), David Polaski (U.S. Military Academy), Amar Rodgers (U.S. Military Academy), Lucas Tucker (U.S. Military Academy)
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