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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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State legislation: Illinois bill aims to lift state’s remaining nuclear moratorium
A bill that would fully repeal the state’s entire moratorium on new nuclear projects survived a key deadline in the Illinois General Assembly last week.
To stay afloat in the spring legislative session, bills needed to be assigned to committee by March 21, and state Sen. Sue Rezin’s Senate Bill 1527 now sits with the Senate’s Energy and Public Utilities committee for review.
Technical Session|Sponsored by IRD|Cosponsored by RPSD
Monday, June 17, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Jasmine E
Session Chair:
Edward J. Cazalas
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Stylianos Chatzidakis
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Testing and Evaluation of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays for Applications in High Radiation Environment
1:00–1:20PM PDT
Marlin Keller (Ohio State), Lei Raymond Cao (Ohio State), Praneeth Kandlakunta (Ohio State)
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Towards an Open-Source Hybrid Monte-Carlo Framework for Fast Response Modeling of NaI(Tl) and HPGe Detectors
1:20–1:40PM PDT
Matthew Niichel (Purdue Univ.), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue Univ.)
Analysis of Radioactive Zn-65 Contamination Using 3D Position Sensitive CdZnTe Detectors
1:40–1:50PM PDT
Valerie E. Nwadeyi (SRNL)
Metal Oxide Infused Conformal Coatings for Shielding Satellite Electronics
1:50–2:00PM PDT
Robert B. Hayes (NCSU), Patrick J. Hartwell (NCSU)
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