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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Panelists discuss U.S. path to criticality in ANS webinar
The American Nuclear Society recently hosted a panel discussion featuring prominent figures from the nuclear sector who discussed the industry’s ongoing push for criticality.
Yasir Arafat, chief technical officer of Aalo Atomics; Jordan Bramble, CEO of Antares Nuclear; and Rita Baranwal, chief nuclear officer of Radiant Industries, participated in the discussion and covered their recent progress in the Department of Energy’s Reactor Pilot Program. Nader Satvat, director of nuclear systems design at Kairos Power, gave an update on the company’s ongoing demonstration projects taking place outside of the landscape of DOE authorization.
Technical Session|Special Session on Research Activities of the Center for Exascale Monte Carlo Neutron Transport (CEMeNT)
Wednesday, April 30, 2025|3:15–4:55PM MDT|Lawrence B
Session Chair:
Ilham Variansyah (Oregon State)
Alternate Chair:
Todd Palmer (Oregon State)
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Enabling GPU Portability into the Numba-JITed Monte Carlo Particle Transport Code MC/DC
3:15–3:40PM MDT
Joanna Piper Morgan (Oregon State), Braxton Cuneo (Seattle Univ.), Ilham Variansyah (Oregon State), Kyle E. Niemyer (Oregon State)
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Comparing the Performance of MC/DC's on-GPU Event-Based Processing Methods in Multigroup and Continuous-Energy Problems
3:40–4:05PM MDT
Braxton Cuneo (CEMeNT), Joanna Piper Morgan (CEMeNT), Ilham Variansyah (CEMeNT), Kyle E. Niemeyer (CEMeNT)
Improvements in MC/DC Domain Decomposition Functionality
4:05–4:30PM MDT
Alexander Mote (Oregon State), Todd Palmer (Oregon State), Lizhong Chen (Oregon State)
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