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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.
2025 International Conference on Accelerator Applications (AccApp'25)
Technical Session
Tuesday, November 11, 2025|10:15AM–12:00PM EST|Jefferson West
Session Chair:
Jean-Christophe C. Sublet
Alternate Chair:
Jennifer Jo Ressler
Session Organizer:
Yongqiang Wang
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Activation Experiment inside the Beam Dump Shield for 2-11 GeV Electron Beam at JLAB
10:15–10:35AM EST
Noriaki Nakao (Shimizu Corporation), Adam Stavola (JLAB), Pavel V. Degtiarenko (JLAB), Roger Ruber (JLAB), Keith Welch (JLAB), Mark Wiseman (JLAB), Toshiya Sanami (KEK), Nobuhiro Terunuma (KEK), Yu Morikawa (KEK), Yasuhito Sakaki (KEK), Hiroshi Iwase (KEK)
Paper
Characterization of Proton-Induced Residual and Fission Yields in Thorium from 40-200 MeV
10:35–10:55AM EST
Samuel Kim (LANL), Ellen M. O'Brien (LANL), Jonathan Morrell (LANL), Catherine Apgar (University of California Berkeley), Dmitri G. Medvedev (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Christiaan E. Vermeulen (LANL)
Photonuclear Production Cross Section Measurements at the RPI LINAC
10:55–11:15AM EST
Dominik Fritz (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Evgeny Taskaev (Eckert & Ziegler Analytics)
Multifaceted Coded Nuclear Data Libraries Assemblage: TENDL-2025
11:15–11:35AM EST
Jean-Christophe C. Sublet (UKAEA), Arjan Koning (IAEA), Dimitri Rochman (PSI)
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88, 95Zirconium-Radioisotopes: Bremsstrahlung Photon-Induced Activation and Kinematic Recoil Separation.
11:35–11:55AM EST
Willie Hughes (New Mexico Tech), D.P. Wells (New Mexico Tech), M. Baca (New Mexico Tech), C. Gustafson (New Mexico Tech), D. Hojnowski (New Mexico Tech), Jack Nation (New Mexico Tech), Jacob Sandusky (New Mexico Tech), Brandon Tso (New Mexico Tech), Aidan Villa (New Mexico Tech), Ryan Zander (New Mexico Tech), Clarissa Zeiger (New Mexico Tech), Van Romero (New Mexico Tech), Geno Santistevan (New Mexico Tech), Robert S. Bentley (New Mexico Tech), Daniel S. Dale (Idaho State University), Tony Forest (Idaho State University), Kean Martinic (Idaho State University), Robert Staub (Idaho State University), Brian Rasmussen (Idaho State University), Edna Cárdenas (Idaho National Lab), Michael A. Reichenberger (Idaho National Lab)
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