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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Going Nuclear: Notes from the officially unofficial book tour
I work in the analytical labs at one of Europe’s oldest and largest nuclear sites: Sellafield, in northwestern England. I spend my days at the fume hood front, pipette in one hand and radiation probe in the other (and dosimeter pinned to my chest, of course). Outside the lab, I have a second job: I moonlight as a writer and public speaker. My new popular science book—Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World—came out last summer, and it feels like my life has been running at full power ever since.
Technical Session|Deterministic Transport Methods and Applications
Monday, April 28, 2025|3:15–4:55PM MDT|Lawrence A
Session Chair:
Jae Chang (LANL)
Alternate Chair:
Mathew Cleveland (LANL)
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A Hybrid SN-Diffusion Method for Molten Salt Reactor Control Rod Modeling
3:15–3:40PM MDT
Sun Myung Park (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Kathryn D. Huff (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Madicken Munk (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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Response Matrix Equivalence Method Based on Relaxed Flux Continuity Equation and its Application to Reflector Homogenization for Diffusion Calculations
3:40–4:05PM MDT
Sami Machach (Polytechnique Montréal), Alain Hebert (Polytechnique Montreal)
High-Accuracy Critical Radii Analytic Expressions for Spherical Reflected Systems Based on Discontinuous Asymptotic Diffusion Theory
4:05–4:30PM MDT
Shay I. Heizler (Hebrew Univ.)
Adaptive Mesh Refinement of the Domain Decomposition+𝐿2-Jumps Method Applied to the Neutron Diffusion Equation on 3D Structured Meshes
4:30–4:55PM MDT
Mario Gervais (CEA), François Madiot (CEA), Minh-Hieu Do (CEA), Patrick Ciarlet (ENSTA)
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