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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
Wednesday, November 12, 2025|10:15AM–12:00PM EST|International Ballroom East
Session Chair:
Lin Shao
Alternate Chair:
Yongqiang Wang
Session Organizer:
Khalid Hattar
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Luminescence Behavior and Damage Kinetics of SrTiO3 and KTaO3 at High Electronic Excitation Rates and Cryogenic Temperatures
10:15–10:40AM EST
Miguel L. Crespillo (Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996), Joseph T. Graham (Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Missouri, USA), Fernando Agulló-López (Centro de Micro-Análisis de Materiales, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain), William J. Weber (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA), Khalid Hattar (Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996)
Presented by Harsh Singh (UTK)
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Radiation Safety Assessment for Simultaneous Irradiation and Corrosion in Molten Salts
10:40–11:00AM EST
Colton Cagle (TAMU), Kenneth Cooper (TAMU), Lin Shao (TAMU)
Design and Deployment of a new In Situ Ion Irradiation Mechanical Testing Facility
11:00–11:20AM EST
Charles Hirst (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Smeet Patel (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Wyatt Peterson (Univ. Michigan), Kevin G. Field (Univ. Michigan)
Non-Destructive Analysis of Terracotta Figurines from Tall Damiyeh Using Synchrotron based X-ray Techniques
11:20–11:40AM EST
Sahar al Khasawneh (Department of Conservation and Management of Cultural Resources, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan), Messaoud Harfouche (SESAME - Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East, Allan, Jordan), Gianluca Iori (Institute for Biomedical Engineering, ETH Zürich and University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland)
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