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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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Christmas Night
Twas the night before Christmas when all through the houseNo electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged in by the chimney with careWith the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
Technical Session|Methods
Monday, April 22, 2024|10:15AM–12:00PM PDT|Continental Ballroom 2
Session Chair:
David Griesheimer (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
Alternate Chair:
Valeria Raffuzzi (Univ. Cambridge)
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Nemo: A Centralized Model Representation for Reactor Physics Solvers
10:15–10:35AM PDT
P.E. Burke (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), S.J. Douglass (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), D.F. Gill (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), D.P. Griesheimer (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), M.W. Hackemack (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), B.R. Nease (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
Paper
Assessment of Heuristics for the Automated Generation of 2D Method of Characteristics Mesh
10:35–10:55AM PDT
Kyle Vaughn (Univ. Michigan), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. Michigan)
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Geometric Acceleration Structures to Speed Up Cell Searches in OpenMC
10:55–11:15AM PDT
Saad Amin (Mission San Jose High School), Gavin Ridley (MIT), Benoit Forget (MIT)
A Recursive Subdivision Algorithm for Delta-Tracking on Bezier Curve Geometries in SCONE
11:15–11:35AM PDT
Jamie K. Edwards (Univ. Cambridge), Andrew Davis (UKAEA), Eugene Shwageraus (Univ. Cambridge)
A Delta-Tracking Method that Supports Finite-Element Material Properties in Mesh-Based Monte Carlo Codes
11:35–11:55AM PDT
Pablo A. Vaquer (LANL), Michael E. Rising (LANL), Joel A. Kulesza (LANL), Colin A. Weaver (LANL), Colin J. Josey (LANL)
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