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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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General Kenneth Nichols and the Manhattan Project
Nichols
The Oak Ridger has published the latest in a series of articles about General Kenneth D. Nichols, the Manhattan Project, and the 1954 Atomic Energy Act. The series has been produced by Nichols’ grandniece Barbara Rogers Scollin and Oak Ridge (Tenn.) city historian David Ray Smith. Gen. Nichols (1907–2000) was the district engineer for the Manhattan Engineer District during the Manhattan Project.
As Smith and Scollin explain, Nichols “had supervision of the research and development connected with, and the design, construction, and operation of, all plants required to produce plutonium-239 and uranium-235, including the construction of the towns of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Richland, Washington. The responsibility of his position was massive as he oversaw a workforce of both military and civilian personnel of approximately 125,000; his Oak Ridge office became the center of the wartime atomic energy’s activities.”
Technical Session
Monday, October 4, 2021|5:30–7:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Yaqi Wang (INL)
Session Organizer:
Todd J. Urbatsch
Student Producer:
William Dawn (NC State Univ.)
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Recent Advances of the FENNECS NEutroniCS Code for Safety Assessment of (v)SMR, Generation IV and Other Innovative Concepts
5:30–5:35PM EDT
A. Seubert (Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit), J. Bousquet (Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit), R. Henry (Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit)
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Development of an OpenFOAM interface for ENRICO
5:35–5:40PM EDT
Lance Bullerwell (NC State Univ.), Patrick Shriwise (ANL), Paul Romano (ANL), Ron Rahaman (ANL), Jason Hou (NC State Univ.)
Modeling of Koeberg Power Plant: Generation of Nominal and Perturbed Nuclear Data With Polaris for PARCS Simulations
5:40–5:45PM EDT
Pascal Rouxelin (NC State Univ.), Agustin Abarca (NC State Univ.), Maria Avramova (NC State Univ.), Margaret Mkhosi (Centre for Nuclear Safety and Security), Ian Korir (Centre for Nuclear Safety and Security)
Analysis of Rod Ejection Accident in Cycle 23 of Koeberg NPP with PARCS and CTF/PARCS
5:45–5:50PM EDT
A. Abarca (NC State Univ.), C. Takasugi (NC State Univ.), R. Tshipuke (NC State Univ.), P. Rouxelin (NC State Univ.), M. Avramova (NC State Univ.), M. Mkhosi (Centre for Nuclear Safety and Security), I. Korir (Centre for Nuclear Safety and Security)
Implementation of Dynamic Monte Carlo Simulation in iMC and Multi-Physics Analysis on Advanced Fuel Element
5:50–5:55PM EDT
HyeonTae Kim (KAIST), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
On the Creation of the New ENDF/B-VIII.0 Covariance Library for SCALE Applications With AMPX
5:55–6:00PM EDT
F. Bostelmann (ORNL), A. M. Holcomb (ORNL), D. Wiarda (ORNL), W.A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
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Sensitivity Analysis and Its Convergence Through Monte Carlo Calculations for the UAM GEN-III Benchmark: Application to Power Distributions
6:00–6:05PM EDT
P. Lopez (Univ. Grenoble-Alpes), A. Bidaud (Univ. Grenoble-Alpes)
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Revisiting the Lockwood Albedo Measurements for Validation of the Integrated Tiger Series Electron-Photon Transport Code
6:05–6:10PM EDT
Rowdy Davis (Univ. of New Mexico), Ronald P. Kensek (Sandia), Christopher M. Perfetti (Univ. of New Mexico), Aaron Olson (Sandia)
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Uncertainty Quantification and Sensitivity Analysis of PWR FA Decay Heat by STREAM/RAST-K
6:10–6:15PM EDT
Jaerim Jang (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology), Chidong Kong (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology), Bamidele Ebiwonjumi (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology), Yunki Jo (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology), Alexey Cherezov (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology), Deokjung Lee (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology)
Acceleration of Nodal Diffusion Calculations Using Machine Learning-Driven Generation of Homogenized Macroscopic Cross-Sections
6:15–6:20PM EDT
Siarhei Dzianisau (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology), Jiwon Choe (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology), Alexey Cherezov (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology), Deokjung Lee (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology)
Developing Covert Cognizance (C2) for Industrial Control Systems
6:20–6:25PM EDT
Arvind Sundaram (Purdue Univ.), Hany S. Abdel-Khalik (Purdue Univ.)
Application of Deep Neural Networks for Coarse Mesh Turbulence Modeling in Reactor Transients Analysis
6:25–6:30PM EDT
Yang Liu (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL), Prasanna Balaprakash (ANL), Acacia Brunett (ANL), Aleksandr Obabko (ANL)
A Phase Field Model for Hydrothermal Corrosion in Silicon Carbide
6:30–6:35PM EDT
Anant Raj (NC State Univ.), Jacob Eapen (NC State Univ.)
Phononica: A Phonon Dynamics Simulator
6:35–6:40PM EDT
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