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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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NRC staff: “We’ve already made progress”—Part 2
It’s been a busy eight months, Mike King told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in a recent hearing on the immediate and projected impacts of new federal legislation aimed at supporting the nation’s current nuclear energy renaissance.
Nuclear Criticality Safety Division Topical Meeting (NCSD 2022)
Technical Session
Wednesday, June 15, 2022|3:15–5:00PM PDT|El Capitan A
Session Chairs:
Nicolas Leclaire (IRSN)
David E. Ames (SNL)
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The OECD/NEA Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety: Recent Outcome, Work in Progress and Outlook
Julie-Fiona Martin (OECD NEA), Tatiana Ivanova (OECD NEA), Alexander Vasiliev (PSI), Dimitri Rochman (PSI), John Bess (JFoster & Assoc.), Forrest Brown (Univ. New Mexico), Coralie Carmouze (CEA), Isabelle Duhamel (IRSN), Raphaelle Ichou (IRSN), Sonny Gan (Sellafield), Anthony R. Wilson (Sellafield), Alex Hoefer (Framatome ), Germina Ilas (ORNL), Will Wieselquist (ORNL), George McKenzie (LANL), Catherine Percher (LLNL), Maik Stuke (BGZ), Andrea Zoia (Univ. Paris-Saclay)
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Developing a High-Fidelity Benchmark of the University of New Mexico’s AGN-201M Reactor
Rowdy Davis (Univ. New Mexico), Christopher M. Perfetti (Univ. New Mexico), Forrest B. Brown (Univ. New Mexico), Robert D. Busch (Univ. New Mexico), Carl Willis (Univ. New Mexico), Larry L. Wetzel (LL Wetzel), Shawn J. Henderson (Sandia )
New Integral Benchmark Data in the ICSBEP and IRPhEP Handbooks Since NCSD 2017
John D. Bess (JFoster & Assoc.), Tatiana Ivanova (OECD NEA), Julie-Fiona Martin (OECD NEA), Ian Hill (OECD NEA), Lori Scott (INL)
Evaluation of Oak Ridge National Laboratory Health Physics Research Reactor Operation Data for Critical Benchmark Creation
Mathieu N. Dupont (ORNL)
New Pulsed Neutron Die-Away Experiments in Light Water
D. Siefman (LLNL), W. Zywiec (LLNL), C. Percher (LLNL), D. Heinrichs (LLNL)
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