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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|Isotope Production
Saturday, April 5, 2025|9:00–10:20AM MDT|Valle Grande 2
Session Chair:
Mark L. Wetzel
Alternate Chair:
Benjamin Murphy (Univ. New Mexico)
Session Organizer:
Ashley Machado
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High-Power Target Design Optimization for Ac-225 Production
9:00–9:20AM MDT
Shereen Aissi (Univ. California, Berkeley), Isabella S. Bredwell (Univ. California, Berkeley), Damanpreet Bhattal (Univ. California, Berkeley), Darren Bleuel (LLNL), Dajie Sun (LBNL), Abby Lee (Univ. California, Berkeley), Rebecca Hebert (Univ. California, Berkeley), Andrew S. Voyles (LBNL), Lee A. Bernstein (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Paper
Analysis of Improved 232U Production Through the use of Cyclical Irradiation.
9:20–9:40AM MDT
Michael H. Divittorio (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Darby Walker (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Melis Y. Sakarya (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Identification of U and Th Surrogates and Their Chemical Characteristics for Chromatographic Separation
9:40–10:00AM MDT
Shams Al Azzawi (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Jessika V. Rojas (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Mahmoud Khatab (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Tritium and Isotope Thermally Activated Network (TITAN) Reactor
10:00–10:20AM MDT
Eric A. Franklin (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Gavin R. Baird (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology)
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