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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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My story: Abraham Weitzberg, ANS member since 1962
. . . and today.
Weitzberg then. . .
My first exposure to nuclear engineering was in 1956–57 when I was a fourth-year chemical engineering undergraduate at MIT. The previous summer, I worked at an oil refinery in New Jersey and our class visited a Monsanto sulfuric acid factory in Boston Harbor. I lost my enthusiasm for chemical engineering and decided to take a couple of introductory nuclear engineering courses as a senior. After a summer job at Y-12 in Oak Ridge, I started on a nuclear engineering master’s degree program. (An Atomic Energy Commission fellowship certainly helped my decision.)
The following summer, I performed reactor physics experiments at Brookhaven with Herb Kouts, Joe Hendrie, Rudy Sher, and Henry Windsor. In January 1962, after defending my Ph.D. dissertation on measuring uranium-238 capture in lattices of uranium rods in heavy water, I headed to Los Angeles to work on SNAP reactors for Atomics International. There, I performed critical experiments and managed their aerospace safety program.
Technical Session|Sponsored by ETWDD
Wednesday, November 20, 2024|1:00–2:45PM EST|Canaveral 1
Session Chair:
Andrew Ford
Alternate Chair:
Andrew E. Thomas
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Benchmarking the Current Capability of BISON to Model Constituent Redistribution and Swelling in U-Zr Annular Fuels Without a Sodium Bond
1:00–1:20PM EST
Yogesh Kumar (Univ. Florida), Jacob Hirschhorn (INL), Michael Tonks (Univ. Florida)
Paper
Phase Field Modeling of Irradiation Impact on the Corrosion Behavior of SS 316H by Molten Salt
1:20–1:40PM EST
Thompson Igunma (Univ. Florida), Michael Tonks (Univ. Florida)
Preliminary Modeling of Molybdenum Deposition in a Molten Salt Reactor
1:40–2:00PM EST
Logan Brown (TAMU), Mark Kimber (TAMU)
Optimal Microreactor Heat Pipe Heat Exchanger Microchannel Design for a Supercritical CO2 Brayton Cycle
2:00–2:20PM EST
Curtis H. Foster (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Mitchell R. Erickson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Gregory F. Nellis (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Mark H. Anderson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Comparison of Multi-Effect Distillation and Reverse Osmosis for Nuclear-Coupled ZLD Seawater Desalination
2:20–2:40PM EST
Kristian Marril Bacarro (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Mark Anderson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Luca Mastropasqua (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Mohan Qin (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Michael J. Wagner (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Ben Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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