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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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X-energy forms partnership with Talen Energy to assess Xe-100 deployment
X-energy announced Thursday that it has signed a letter of intent with Talen Energy to assess the deployment of X-energy’s Xe-100 reactor in Pennsylvania and throughout the market area of the PJM Interconnection regional transmission organization. That area, where the companies intend to explore the deployment of at least three four-unit Xe-100 power plants, includes several states in the eastern United States, from New Jersey to Illinois.
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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