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September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
Technical Session|Monte Carlo Methods and Applications
Monday, April 28, 2025|3:15–4:55PM MDT|Lawrence B
Session Chair:
Ben Forget (MIT)
Alternate Chair:
Paul Cosgrove (Univ. Cambridge)
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Monte Carlo Sampling Strategy for a Non-Perturbative Approach to the Neutron Noise Equation: a Proof of Concept
3:15–3:40PM MDT
Axel Fauvel (CEA), Amélie Rouchon (CEA), Davide Mancusi (CEA), Andrea Zoia (CEA)
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Comparison of Branching and Branchless Zero-Variance Games
3:40–4:05PM MDT
Thayz Gomes Ferreira (CEA), Francesco Rossi (CEA), Alexis Jinaphanh (CEA), Davide Mancusi (CEA), Andrea Zoia (CEA)
Real Variance Estimation in iDTMC Method Using Autoregressive (1) Model
4:05–4:30PM MDT
Jaehyeong Jang (KAIST), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
Selection-Driven Evolutionary Population Control for Kinetic Monte Carlo Variance Reduction
4:30–4:55PM MDT
Martin Skretteberg (Univ. Cambridge), Paul Cosgrove (Univ. Cambridge)
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