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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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3D Printing Possibilities: Additive Manufacturing Impact Limiters for Transportation Casks
With the significant advances in additive manufacturing (AM), otherwise known as 3D printing, Orano Federal Services and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte recently re-examined the capabilities to print impact limiters for transportation casks used to ship spent nuclear fuel. Impact limiters protect transportation casks (sometimes also referred to as transportation overpacks) and their contents during an accident. Impact limiter designs must withstand testing based on a certain significance level of hypothetical accidents, including drops, crushing, fires, and immersion in water.
Technical Session|Radiative Transfer Methods
Tuesday, April 29, 2025|8:00–9:40AM MDT|E.P. Ensley A
Session Chair:
Nick Gentile (LLNL)
Alternate Chair:
Mathew Cleveland (LANL)
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A Hybrid Second Moment Method for Thermal Radiative Transfer
8:00–8:25AM MDT
Michael Pozulp (LLNL), Terry Haut (LLNL), Patrick Brantley (LLNL), Samuel Olivier (LANL), Jasmina Vujic (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Paper
A Second Moment Transport Method for Semi-Implicit Nonlinear Thermal Radiative Transfer
8:25–8:50AM MDT
Joseph M. Coale (LANL), James S. Warsa (LANL), Samuel Olivier (LANL), Dmitriy Y. Anistratov (NCSU), Jim E. Morel (TAMU)
Generalized Non-Equilibrium Marshak Wave Solutions in the Gray Diffusion Approximation
8:50–9:15AM MDT
Menahem Krief (Racah Institute), Ryan G. McClarren (Univ. Notre Dame)
Multilevel Method with Low-Order Equations of Mixed Types and Two Grids in Photon Energy for Thermal Radiative Transfer
9:15–9:40AM MDT
Dmitriy Y. Anistratov (NCSU), Terry S. Haut (LLNL)
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