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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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Strontium: Supply-and-demand success for the DOE’s Isotope Program
The Department of Energy’s Isotope Program (DOE IP) announced last week that it would end its “active standby” capability for strontium-82 production about two decades after beginning production of the isotope for cardiac diagnostic imaging. The DOE IP is celebrating commercialization of the Sr-82 supply chain as “a success story for both industry and the DOE IP.” Now that the Sr-82 market is commercially viable, the DOE IP and its National Isotope Development Center can “reassign those dedicated radioisotope production capacities to other mission needs”—including Sr-89.
Technical Session|Sponsored by NCSD
Wednesday, November 15, 2023|8:00–9:45AM EST|Columbia 11
Session Chair:
Theresa E. Cutler
Alternate Chair:
Jesse D. Norris
Session Organizer:
Benjamin Martin
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Multiple Critical Unresolved Region Integral Experiment (MCURIE): A Proposed Integral Critical Experimental Framework for Unresolved Region and Intermediate Energies
8:00–8:20AM EST
Travis Grove (LANL), Theresa Cutler (LANL)
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Design of Nuclear Criticality Safety Framework for Hands-on Construction of Fast Systems over Ranges of Multiplication
8:20–8:40AM EST
Luke Oukrop (LANL), Shripad Revankar (Purdue), Daniel Prestin (Purdue), Korie Berdine (Purdue), Nathan Tollett (Purdue), Travis Grove (LANL), Jessie Walker (LANL), Travis Smith (LANL)
Polymer Compositions in Critical Experiments: Possibly Not What You Think
8:40–9:00AM EST
Theresa Cutler (LANL), Travis Grove (LANL), Jesson Hutchinson (LANL)
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