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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Reimagining nuclear materials for the future of medicine
Nuclear medicine has come a long way since Henri Becquerel first observed the penetrating energy of radioactive materials in 1896. Today, technetium-99m alone is used in more than 40 million diagnostic procedures every year—from cardiovascular imaging and bone scans to cancer detection—making it the undisputed workhorse of nuclear medicine. That single statistic tells you something important: An enormous portion of modern diagnostic medicine rests on a surprisingly narrow foundation, one built around a small number of aging research reactors that were never originally designed for continuous isotope production.
Workshop
Thursday, October 13, 2022|8:00AM–12:00PM EDT|Adagio/Allegro
Session Organizer:
Ryan Sweet (INL)
Built on top of the MOOSE Framework, which solves partial differential equations important to fuel performance via the finite element method (energy conservation, stress divergence, and species migration), BISON adds specific fuel constitutive and behavioral models designed to represent the response of fuel and cladding/structural layers in a variety of fuel designs and reactor types. This workshop will serve to introduce users to the BISON code system by building basic examples to help them get started with fuel performance analysis.