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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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ANS sends waste policy recommendations to DOE
The American Nuclear Society has sent a letter to Energy Secretary Chris Wright with a set of recommendations for the Department of Energy to take to establish an effective national program to manage the storage, reprocessing, and final disposal of U.S. commercial used nuclear fuel.
Technical Session|Detection and Analysis
Wednesday, September 11, 2024|3:00–3:50PM EDT|Colonial Ballroom
Session Chair:
Marisa J. Monreal
Alternate Chair:
Kiel S. Holliday
Session Organizer:
Jason R. Jeffries
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Identifying Chemical Signatures of Plutonium Oxide Particles for Nuclear Forensics Using Synchrotron X-Rays
3:00–3:30PM EDT
Alexander Baker (LLNL), Rachel Lim (LLNL), Alexander Ditter (Berkeley Lab), Scott Donald (LLNL), David Shuh (Berkeley Lab), Brandon Chung (LLNL)
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Spectroscopic Interrogation of NpO2 and PuO2 Synthesized from Discrete Molecular Precursors
3:30–3:50PM EDT
S. Olivia Gunther (Berkeley Lab), Trevor Arino (Berkeley Lab), Appie Peterson (Berkeley Lab), Joshua J. Woods (Berkeley Lab), Jefferey R. McLachaln (Berkeley Lab), Luis Aguirre Quintana (Berkeley Lab), Jennifer N. Wacker (Berkeley Lab), David K. Shuh (Berkeley Lab), Rebecca Abergel (Berkeley Lab)
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