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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.
Chicago Local Section Event
June 6, 2024|7:00–8:00PM (8:00–9:00PM EDT)
Available to All Users
The ANS Chicago Local Section is hosting a presentation from Alex Wheeler of Curio, a company pioneering innovative nuclear waste recycling solutions and unlocking the full potential of the atom. From closing the fuel cycle to producing proliferation-hardened alternative fuels for current and advanced reactors, Curio envisions a future powered by clean, sustainable, and carbon-free nuclear energy.
Alex Wheeler is a Sr. Nuclear Engineer working for Curio. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degree from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and researched topics for MSRs, fuel cycle, and nonproliferation. Currently, Curio has received an ARPA-E grant to study NuCycle, an innovative method of recycling spent nuclear fuel, and Alex has spent much of his work focused research and development of NuCycle. Alex has also worked on reactor design concepts that utilize TRUfuel.
