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Fusion Energy
This division promotes the development and timely introduction of fusion energy as a sustainable energy source with favorable economic, environmental, and safety attributes. The division cooperates with other organizations on common issues of multidisciplinary fusion science and technology, conducts professional meetings, and disseminates technical information in support of these goals. Members focus on the assessment and resolution of critical developmental issues for practical fusion energy applications.
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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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Report spotlights energy sector’s growing nuclear investment
As part of a broader series on the future of global energy markets, S&P Global has released a report on examining the growing interest in nuclear power as the solution to many of the problems the energy sector faces.
To read the full details and conclusions of the report, click here.
Technical Session|Monte Carlo Methods and Applications
Tuesday, April 29, 2025|10:00–11:40AM MDT|Lawrence B
Session Chair:
Michael Rising (LANL)
Alternate Chair:
Ben Forget (MIT)
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Peacock: A Monte Carlo Code with Shared Memory Paralellism for Consumer-Grade Computing Architectures
10:00–10:25AM MDT
William C. Dawn (Studsvik Scandpower)
Paper
A Practical Guide to Parsing MCNP Inputs: Lessons Learned from Implementing Context-Free Parsing in MontePy
10:25–10:50AM MDT
Micah D. Gale (INL), Travis J. Labossiere-Hickman (INL), Brenna Carbno (INL)
Development of an Event Tracking Feature in OpenMC for Neutron Spectroscopy and Scatter Camera Systems
10:50–11:15AM MDT
Michel Saliba (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Paul K. Romano (ANL), John R. Tramm (ANL), Erik B. Knudsen (United Neux), Daniel J. Siefman (Univ. California, Berkeley), Andreas Pautz (Paul Scherrer Institute), Oskari V. Pakari (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Radiation Shielding Analysis of LEA in APS using FLUKA, PHITS and MARS Monte Carlo Radiation Transport Codes
11:15–11:40AM MDT
Sunil Chitra (ANL), Jeffrey Dooling (ANL)
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