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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 OPD
Tuesday, November 19, 2024|3:15–5:00PM EST|Grouper
Session Chair:
Ben Holtzman (Nuclear Energy Institute)
Alternate Chair:
Chandu Bolisetti (INL)
Session Organizer:
William N. Mann
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Fission Battery Competition for On-Site Heat and Electricity Generation: A Review
3:15–3:35PM EST
Charles Forsberg (MIT)
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Toward Cost-Competitive Microreactors
3:35–3:55PM EST
Botros N. Hanna (INL), Rodrigo de Oliveira (INL), Mike W. Patterson (INL), Abdalla Abou-Jaoude (INL)
Factory Fabrication Modeling of a High Temperature Gas Reactor Fission Battery
3:55–4:15PM EST
Chandrakanth Bolisetti (INL), Rodrigo Gonzalez Gonzaga de Oliveira (INL), Dan McCarthy (Munro and Assoc.), Sai P. Balla (INL), Botros Hanna (INL), Abdalla Abou Jaoude (INL)
Mass-Production Techno-Economics of a High Temperature Gas-Cooled Fission Battery
4:15–4:35PM EST
Botros N. Hanna (INL), Sai P. Balla (MIT), Rodrigo G. de Oliveira (INL), Chandrakanth Bolisetti (INL), Abdalla Abou-Jaoude (INL), Dan McCarthy (Munro and Assoc.)
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