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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Amazon provides update on its Washington project with X-energy
A year ago this month, Amazon led a $500 million investment in X-energy, alongside Citadel founder Ken Griffin, the University of Michigan, and other investors. In addition to that financing, Amazon pledged to support the development of an initial four-unit, 320-MW project with Energy Northwest in Washington state.
Technical Session|Special Session on Random Ray Transport
Tuesday, April 29, 2025|3:15–4:55PM MDT|E.P. Ensley A
Session Chair:
John Tramm (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
Elliott Biondo (ORNL)
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Linear Source Random Ray on GPU
3:15–3:40PM MDT
Rufus Neame (Univ. Cambridge), Paul Cosgrove (Univ. Cambridge), John Tramm (ANL)
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Correcting k-eff-Normalisation-Induced Bias in the Time-Dependent Random Ray Method
3:40–4:05PM MDT
Maximilian Kraus (Univ. Cambridge), Paul Cosgrove (Univ. Cambridge), John Tramm (ANL), Eugene Shwageraus (Univ. Cambridge)
Coupled 1D Neutronics and Thermal-Hydraulics Modelling with the Random Ray Method
4:05–4:30PM MDT
Lucy Bland (Univ. Cambridge), Paul Cosgrove (Univ. Cambridge)
Randomized Quasi-Monte Carlo Sampling in the Random Ray Method for Neutron Transport Simulations
4:30–4:55PM MDT
Samuel Pasmann (Thea Energy), John Tramm (ANL)
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