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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Nominations open for CNTA awards
Citizens for Nuclear Technology Awareness is accepting nominations for its Fred C. Davison Distinguished Scientist Award and its Nuclear Service Award. Nominations for both awards must be submitted by August 1.
The awards will be presented this fall as part of the CNTA’s annual Edward Teller Lecture event.
Technical Session|Sponsored by IRD
Thursday, November 19, 2020|2:30–4:15PM EST
Session Chair:
Kenan Unlu
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Brenden J. Heidrich
Staff Producer:
Rick Michal (American Nuclear Society)
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Estimating source-detector distance using coincidence events
Christopher R. Greulich (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Dhaval Patel (Georgia Tech), Shirly Rodriguez (GE-Hitachi Nuclear Enginery), James E. Baciak (University of Florida)
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Suitability of Analytic Treatment of Radiation Transport for High Resolution Gamma Ray Computed Tomography
Zhongmin Jin (Missouri University of Science and Technology), Joseph T. Graham (Missouri University of Science & Technology)
A Machine Learning Approach for Background Radiation Modeling and Anomaly Detection in Radiation Time Series pertained to Nuclear Security
Miltiadis Alamaniotis (University of Texas San Antonio), Alexander Heifetz (Argonne National Laboratory)
Intelligent Data Smoothing of Gamma-Ray Spectra using Relevance Vector Machines with Application to Nuclear Security
Miltiadis Alamaniotis (University of Texas San Antonio)
Design Progress of a Subcritical Reactor for Pilot Scale 99Mo Production
Robert N. Wahlen (Niowave, Inc.), Chad Denbrock (Niowave, Inc.), Terry L. Grimm (Niowave, Inc.), Puran Deng (University of Michigan), Won S. Yang (University of Michigan)
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