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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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El Salvador: Looking to nuclear
In 2022, El Salvador’s leadership decided to expand its modest, mostly hydro- and geothermal-based electricity system, which is supported by expensive imported natural gas and diesel generation. They chose to use advanced nuclear reactors, preferably fueled by thorium-based fuels, to power their civilian efforts. The choice of thorium was made to inform the world that the reactor program was for civilian purposes only, and so they chose a fuel that was plentiful, easy to source and work with, and not a proliferation risk.
Technical Session|Methods
Wednesday, April 24, 2024|10:15AM–12:00PM PDT|Continental Ballroom 2
Session Chair:
Piero Ravetto (-)
Alternate Chair:
Marco Tiberga (EDF)
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The Random Ray Method Applied to Fixed Source Transport Problems
10:15–10:35AM PDT
P. Cosgrove (Univ. Cambridge), J.R. Tramm (ANL)
Paper
Application of the Random Ray Method to Global Variance Reduction in Radiation Shielding Problems
10:35–10:55AM PDT
V. Raffuzzi (Univ. Cambridge), P. Cosgrove (Univ. Cambridge), P.C. Shriwise (ANL), J.R. Tramm (ANL)
Monte Carlo Calculations in Support of Rod Insertion Measurements
10:55–11:15AM PDT
Tanja Goričanec (Jožef Stefan Institute), Luka Snoj (Jožef Stefan Institute), Marjan Kromar (Jožef Stefan Institute)
Applicability of Shift-Generated Albedos for Reactor Analysis with MPACT
11:15–11:35AM PDT
Nicholas Herring (Univ. Texas, Austin), Benjamin Collins (Univ. Texas, Austin), Kevin Clarno (Univ. Texas, Austin)
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