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Conference Spotlight
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.
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3:15–5:00PM EST
Jefferson East
Session Chair: Cornelia Hoehr|Alternate Chair: Christiaan E. Vermeulen
Jefferson West
Session Chair: Sergey V. Kutsaev|Alternate Chair: Bruce Carlsten
10:15AM–12:00PM EST
Session Chair: Lin Shao|Alternate Chair: Yongqiang Wang
Session Chair: Jean-Christophe C. Sublet|Alternate Chair: Jennifer Jo Ressler
1:00–2:45PM EST
Session Chair: Bruce Carlsten|Alternate Chair: Steve Russell
Session Chair: Ellen M. O'Brien|Alternate Chair: Christiaan E. Vermeulen
Session Chair: Marcos Ruelas|Alternate Chair: Sergey V. Kutsaev
International Ballroom East
Gunston East/West
Session Chair: Nick Evans|Alternate Chair: Patrick Hurh
Session Chair: Steve Russell|Alternate Chair: Bruce Carlsten
Session Chair: Jennifer Jo Ressler|Alternate Chair: Jean-Christophe C. Sublet
Lincoln West
Session Chair: Fredrik Tovesson|Alternate Chair: Lin Shao
Session Chair: Christiaan E. Vermeulen|Alternate Chair: Jean-Christophe C. Sublet
