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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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I work in the analytical labs at one of Europe’s oldest and largest nuclear sites: Sellafield, in northwestern England. I spend my days at the fume hood front, pipette in one hand and radiation probe in the other (and dosimeter pinned to my chest, of course). Outside the lab, I have a second job: I moonlight as a writer and public speaker. My new popular science book—Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World—came out last summer, and it feels like my life has been running at full power ever since.
Technical Session|Experimental Reactor Physics
Tuesday, April 23, 2024|1:30–3:15PM PDT|Franciscan B
Session Chair:
Vincent Lamirand
Alternate Chair:
Tomas Peltan (Research Center Rez)
Session Organizer:
Luka Snoj
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Sub-Critical Gamma Noise Measurements in the CROCUS Zero-Power Reactor
1:30–1:50PM PDT
F.B. Darby (Univ. Michigan), O.V. Pakari (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), M.Y. Hua (Univ. Michigan), V.P. Lamirand (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), S.D. Clarke (Univ. Michigan), A. Pautz (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), S.A. Pozzi (Univ. Michigan)
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Adding New Experimental Capacities to the CABRI Nuclear Reactor
1:50–2:10PM PDT
D. Bonvalet (CEA), F. Rodiac (CEA)
Neutron Noise Measurements of a Fast HEU Copper System
2:10–2:30PM PDT
Cole Kostelac (LANL), Robert Weldon (LANL), Nicholas Whitman (LANL), Nicholas Thompson (LANL), Theresa Cutler (LANL), Ayodeji Alajo (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology)
Capturing Reactor Pulse Characteristics: Cherenkov Power Meter in JSI TRIGA Pulse Experiments and Pulse Database
2:30–2:50PM PDT
Julijan Peric (Jozef Stefan Institute), Ingrid Svajger (Jozef Stefan Institute), Vladimir Radulovic (Jozef Stefan Institute), Luka Snoj (Jožef Stefan Institute)
Measurement of the Prompt Decay Constant in a Zero Power Reactor Using a Novel 3D Detector System
2:50–3:10PM PDT
Michel Saliba (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Oskari Pakari (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Wilfried Monange (IRSN), Andreas Pautz (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Vincent Lamirand (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
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