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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|1:00–2:45PM EST|Gunston East/West
Session Chair:
Jennifer Jo Ressler
Alternate Chair:
Jean-Christophe C. Sublet
Session Organizer:
Yongqiang Wang
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A Systematic Study of Photonuclear Reactions for Isotope Production
1:00–1:20PM EST
Douglas P. Wells (New Mexico Tech), V. Romero (New Mexico Tech), E. Cardenas (Idaho National Lab), M. Reichenberger (Idaho National Lab), D.S. S. Dale (Idaho State University), T. Forest (Idaho State University)
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Photonuclear Cross Sections of Zirconium 89
1:20–1:40PM EST
Cody Gustafson (New Mexico Tech), D.P. Wells (New Mexico Tech), R. S. Bentley (New Mexico Tech), D. Hojnowski (New Mexico Tech), W. Hughes (New Mexico Tech), Jack Nation (New Mexico Tech), Jacob Sandusky (New Mexico Tech), Brandon Tso (New Mexico Tech), Mariana Baca (New Mexico Tech), A. Villa (New Mexico Tech), R. Zander (New Mexico Tech), C. Zeiger (New Mexico Tech), V. Romero (New Mexico Tech), Geno Santistevan (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)
Photonuclear Cross Sections of natSn(γ,2n)
1:40–2:00PM EST
Daniel Hojnowski (New Mexico Tech), D.P. Wells (New Mexico Tech), M. Baca (New Mexico Tech), R. S. Bentley (New Mexico Tech), C. Gustafson (New Mexico Tech), W. Hughes (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), 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)
Photoneutron Cross Sections of 96,98,99,104Ru and 100Mo from Bremsstrahlung Irradiations
2:00–2:20PM EST
Robert Bentley (New Mexico Tech), D.P. Wells (New Mexico Tech), M. Baca (New Mexico Tech), C. Gustafson (New Mexico Tech), D. Hojnowski (New Mexico Tech), W. Hughes (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), Daniel S. Dale (Idaho State University), Roy Dunker (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)
Photonuclear Cross Sections of the Production of 77Br
2:20–2:30PM EST
Jack Nation (New Mexico Tech), D.P. Wells (New Mexico Tech), M. Baca (New Mexico Tech), R. S. Bentley (New Mexico Tech), C. Gustafson (New Mexico Tech), D. Hojnowski (New Mexico Tech), W. Hughes (New Mexico Tech), J. Sandusky (New Mexico Tech), B. Tso (New Mexico Tech), Ryan Zander (New Mexico Tech), Clarissa Zeiger (New Mexico Tech), Van Romero (New Mexico Tech), Aidan Villa (New Mexico Tech), Geno Santistevan (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)
N-13 Production Via Bremsstrahlung Gamma Interaction
2:30–2:40PM EST
Brandon Tso (New Mexico Tech), D.P. Wells (New Mexico Tech), M. Baca (New Mexico Tech), R. S. Bentley (New Mexico Tech), C. Gustafson (New Mexico Tech), D. Hojnowski (New Mexico Tech), W. Hughes (New Mexico Tech), J. Nation (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), J. Sandusky (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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