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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
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Katy Huff on the impact of loosening radiation regulations
Katy Huff, former assistant secretary of nuclear energy at the Department of Energy, recently wrote an op-ed that was published in Scientific American.
In the piece, Huff, who is an ANS member and an associate professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign, argues that weakening Nuclear Regulatory Commission radiation regulations without new research-based evidence will fail to speed up nuclear energy development and could have negative consequences.
Technical Session|Sponsored by ETWDD
Monday, November 14, 2022|3:15–5:00PM MST|Acacia
Session Chair:
Andrew R. Griffith
Alternate Chair:
Cathy S. Dixon
Session Organizer:
Kim Dougherty
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Topical Analysis of Nuclear Experts' Perceptions of Publics, Nuclear Energy, and Sustainable Futures: A Publication Summary
3:15–3:35PM MST
Hannah K. Patenaude (Univ. Nevada, Las Vegas), Emma Frances Bloomfield (Univ. Nevada, Las Vegas)
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Overview of the Development and Verification of the ntpThermo Code for the Design of Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Reactors
3:35–3:55PM MST
Matt Krecicki (Georgia Tech), Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Tech)
A Plug-And-Play Iterative Estimation Framework to Simultaneously De-Curtain and Denoise FIB-Curtained Nuclear Fuel Microstructures
3:55–4:15PM MST
Alejandro Figueroa Bengoa (Purdue), Maria A. Okuniewski (Purdue)
Organic Glass Scintillator Bars with Dual-Ended Readout
4:15–4:35PM MST
Nathan Giha (Univ. Michigan), Sara A. Pozzi (Univ. Michigan)
Discovery of Spontaneous De-Interpenetration Through Charged Point-Point Repulsions
4:35–4:55PM MST
Sylvia Hanna (Northwestern Univ.), Omar K. Farha (Northwestern Univ.)
Identifying Potential Electron Transitions in a Ce(III)-Catecholate Metal-Organic Framework
4:55–5:15PM MST
Julia G. Knapp (Northwestern Univ.), Debmalya Ray (PNNL), Omar K. Farha (Northwestern Univ.)
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