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May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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The spark of the Super: Teller–Ulam and the birth of the H-bomb—rivalry, credit, and legacy at 75 years
In early 1951, Los Alamos scientists Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam devised a breakthrough that would lead to the hydrogen bomb [1]. Their design gave the United States an initial advantage in the Cold War, though comparable progress was soon achieved independently in the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom.
International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference
Technical Session
Thursday, November 17, 2022|8:00–9:45AM MST|Kaibab
Session Chair:
Styliani Pantopoulou (Purdue)
Alternate Chair:
Sven Bader (Orano)
Session Organizer:
Brady D. Hanson
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Using Cosmic Ray Muons to Assess Geological Characteristics in the Subsurface
8:00–8:20AM MST
H.R. Gadey (PNNL), R. Howard (PNNL), S.C. Tognini (ORNL), J.L. Meszaros (ORNL), R. Montgomery (ORNL), S. Chatzidakis (Purdue), J. Bae (Purdue), R. Clark (U.S. Dept. of Energy)
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Frequency Response Function Based Damage Detection of Spent Nuclear Fuel Canisters
8:20–8:40AM MST
Mehrdad Aghagholizadeh (Univ. Southern California), Bora Gencturk (Univ. Southern California), Roger Ghanem (Univ. Southern California), Anna Arcaro (Univ. Southern California)
Fusion of Distributed Fiber Optics, Acoustic NDE for Spent Fuel Monitoring Towards Physics-Informed Machine Learning
8:40–9:00AM MST
Pengdi Zhang (Univ. Pittsburgh), Abhishek Venketeswaran (National Energy Technology Laboratory), Ruishu F. Wright (National Energy Technology Laboratory), Ryan M. Meyer (PNNL), Paul R. Ohodnicki (Univ. Pittsburgh)
Monitoring Spent Nuclear Fuel in a Dry Cask Using Momentum Integrated Muon Scattering Tomography
9:00–9:20AM MST
Junghyun Bae (Purdue), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue)
Remote Area Modular Monitoring for Nuclear Facilities
9:20–9:40AM MST
B. Craig (ANL), K. Byrne (ANL), Y.Y. Liu (ANL), M. Hoover (Embedded Planet)
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