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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Deep Space: The new frontier of radiation controls
In commercial nuclear power, there has always been a deliberate tension between the regulator and the utility owner. The regulator fundamentally exists to protect the worker, and the utility, to make a profit. It is a win-win balance.
From the U.S. nuclear industry has emerged a brilliantly successful occupational nuclear safety record—largely the result of an ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) process that has driven exposure rates down to what only a decade ago would have been considered unthinkable. In the U.S. nuclear industry, the system has accomplished an excellent, nearly seamless process that succeeds to the benefit of both employee and utility owner.
Sunday, April 27, 2025|8:00AM–5:00PM MDT
Horace Tabor
Cost: $99
Limited Space
Organizer: Paul Romano (Argonne National Laboratory), Micah Gale (Idaho National Laboratory) and Travis Labossiere-Hickman (Idaho National Laboratory)
This workshop will introduce attendees to two powerful Python-based tools for performing Monte Carlo simulations. The first tool that will be covered is MontePy, a Python library for reading, editing, and writing MCNP input files. Through hands-on demonstrations, we will show methods to automate common tasks for updating large MCNP models as well as ways to create an MCNP problem from scratch in MontePy. After covering MontePy, we will then proceed with an interactive demonstration of the OpenMC Monte Carlo code, showing how its Python API can be used to define a model, run a simulation, and analyze the results. Together, attendees will have a strong starting point for performing their own explorations using MontePy and OpenMC.
Participants should bring their laptop to follow along with the live demonstrations. There are no requirements to install software ahead of time. A link will be provided to access the software on a cloud computing platform accessible through any web browser.
