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“Life is a roller coaster. It’s best ridden with your hands in the air.”
Craig Piercycpiercy@ans.org
I find myself saying the expression above a lot these days—to my kids, my wife, my friends, and colleagues. Most recently, I said it to the person sitting next to me after the pilot of our plane—bound for Reagan National Airport a day after the collision of AA flight 5342 and a military Blackhawk helicopter—aborted the landing at the last minute.
I am not sure where I picked up this pronouncement, but I find it to be apropos to the topsy-turvy moment where we find ourselves in 2025. In addition to the first U.S. commercial airline crash in 15 years, we are witnessing a new presidential administration in its infancy playing by the Silicon Valley rules of “move fast, break things.” We’ve seen DeepSeek, the low-cost Chinese AI that reportedly uses 50–75 percent less energy than its NVIDIA-powered counterparts, tank Constellation’s market value by more than 20 percent in one late-January trading day.
Technical Session|Sponsored by IRD
Thursday, November 19, 2020|2:30–4:15PM EST
Session Chair:
Kenan Unlu
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Alternate Chair:
Brenden J. Heidrich
Staff Producer:
Rick Michal (American Nuclear Society)
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Estimating source-detector distance using coincidence events
Christopher R. Greulich (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Dhaval Patel (Georgia Tech), Shirly Rodriguez (GE-Hitachi Nuclear Enginery), James E. Baciak (University of Florida)
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Suitability of Analytic Treatment of Radiation Transport for High Resolution Gamma Ray Computed Tomography
Zhongmin Jin (Missouri University of Science and Technology), Joseph T. Graham (Missouri University of Science & Technology)
A Machine Learning Approach for Background Radiation Modeling and Anomaly Detection in Radiation Time Series pertained to Nuclear Security
Miltiadis Alamaniotis (University of Texas San Antonio), Alexander Heifetz (Argonne National Laboratory)
Intelligent Data Smoothing of Gamma-Ray Spectra using Relevance Vector Machines with Application to Nuclear Security
Miltiadis Alamaniotis (University of Texas San Antonio)
Design Progress of a Subcritical Reactor for Pilot Scale 99Mo Production
Robert N. Wahlen (Niowave, Inc.), Chad Denbrock (Niowave, Inc.), Terry L. Grimm (Niowave, Inc.), Puran Deng (University of Michigan), Won S. Yang (University of Michigan)
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