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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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PR: American Nuclear Society welcomes Senate confirmation of Ted Garrish as the DOE’s nuclear energy secretary
Washington, D.C. — The American Nuclear Society (ANS) applauds the U.S. Senate's confirmation of Theodore “Ted” Garrish as Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
“On behalf of over 11,000 professionals in the fields of nuclear science and technology, the American Nuclear Society congratulates Mr. Garrish on being confirmed by the Senate to once again lead the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy,” said ANS President H.M. "Hash" Hashemian.
Technical Session|Sponsored by NCSD|Cosponsored by FCWMD, RPD
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|8:00–9:45AM PDT|Jasmine G
Session Chair:
Kelsey Amundson
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Jesse Brown
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Nuclear Data Needs for MCFR Reactors
8:00–8:20AM PDT
T. Cisneros (TerraPower), M. Wargon (TerraPower)
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Design of Pre-Moderated Pulsed-Neutron Die-Away Experiments to Validate the Thermal Scattering Law of Beryllium
8:20–8:40AM PDT
Rida Rahman (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Daniel Siefman (Univ. California, Berkeley), Ruby Araj (LLNL), Catherine Percher (LLNL), Vladimir Sobes (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Bayesian Inference Re-estimation of 9Be(α, n) Cross Sections by Using Neutron Spectra Measurements
8:40–9:00AM PDT
Sylvain Bertholon (CEA), Anis Ben-Yelles (CEA), David Bernard (CEA)
Review of Available Critical Experiments and Critical Experiments Facilities to Perform High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium Fuel Transport Validation for Advanced Reactor Deployment
9:00–9:20AM PDT
M.N. Dupont (ORNL), K.L. Reed Fassino (ORNL), W.J. Marshall (ORNL), W.A. Metwally (ORNL), W.A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
A Methodology for Validating the Evolution of Start-up Neutron Sources
9:20–9:30AM PDT
Anis Ben-Yelles (CEA)
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