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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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El Salvador: Looking to nuclear
In 2022, El Salvador’s leadership decided to expand its modest, mostly hydro- and geothermal-based electricity system, which is supported by expensive imported natural gas and diesel generation. They chose to use advanced nuclear reactors, preferably fueled by thorium-based fuels, to power their civilian efforts. The choice of thorium was made to inform the world that the reactor program was for civilian purposes only, and so they chose a fuel that was plentiful, easy to source and work with, and not a proliferation risk.
14th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Applications of Accelerators
Technical Session
Thursday, December 2, 2021|3:05–4:50PM EST |Jefferson
Session Chair:
Valeriia Starovoitova (IAEA)
Session Organizer:
Carol Johnstone
Student Assistant:
Jaden Miller
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Transformative Beam Technologies for FLASH Radiotherapy
3:10–3:30PM EST
Reinhard W. Schulte (Loma Linda University)
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A High-intensity, Low-energy Muon Beam User Facility
3:30–3:50PM EST
Carol Johnstone (Fermi National Accelerator Lab), T. Bouwens (Fermilab), A. Mazzacane (Fermilab), J. Rupsis (Fermilab)
Progress Towards a Rapid Radio-Frequency 3D Beam Scanner for Hadron Therapy
3:50–4:10PM EST
Emilio Nanni (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University), G. Bowden (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), V. Dolgashev (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Z. Li (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), X. Lu (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), D. Palmer (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), E. Snively (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), S. Tantawi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), B. Faddegon (UCSF), J. Mendez (UCSF), R. Schulte (LLU)
Therapy, Experiments for Life Sciences and Radiation Hardness Tests at the HZB Cyclotron
4:10–4:30PM EST
A. Denker (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin), J. Bundesmann (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin), A. Dittwald (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin), T. Fanselow (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin), D. Hildebrand (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin), G. Kourkafas (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin), S. Seidel (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin), J. Röhrich (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin), D. Cordini (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin), J. Heufelder (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin), R. Stark (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin), A. Weber (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin)
ESCORT: Energy Sweep Compact Rapid Cyclic Hadron Therapy
4:30–4:50PM EST
Leo Kwee Wah (Malaysian Nuclear Agency), Ken Takayama (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization), Toshikazu Adachi (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization), Tadamichi Kawakubo (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization), Tanuja Dixit (Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering & Research)
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