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2027 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
October 31–November 4, 2027
Washington, DC|The Westin Washington, DC Downtown
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Disney World should have gone nuclear
There is extra significance to the American Nuclear Society holding its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, this past week. That’s because in 1967, the state of Florida passed a law allowing Disney World to build a nuclear power plant.
Technical Session|Fuel Cycle and Other Applications
Tuesday, April 23, 2024|1:30–3:15PM PDT|Continental Ballroom 1
Session Chair:
Satoshi Gunji (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Alternate Chair:
Donny Hartanto (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Go Chiba (Hokkaido University)
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SCALE 6.3.1 Radiation Source Terms and Shielding Analysis for a Postulated Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Accident Scenario
1:30–1:50PM PDT
G. Radulescu (ORNL), D. Hartanto (ORNL), F. Bostelmann (ORNL), W. Wieselquist (ORNL)
Paper
An Open Source Multiphysics Workflow for the Analysis of Fusion Driven Systems
1:50–2:10PM PDT
Matthew J. Nyberg (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Joseph T. Eickman (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Patrick C. Shriwise (ANL), Ben A. Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Theory of Neutron Multiplicity Counting in an Energy-Dependent Transport Model
2:10–2:30PM PDT
Victor Dykin (Chalmers Univ. Technology), Senada Avdic (Univ. Tuzla), Imre Pázsit (Chalmers Univ. Technology)
Presented by Paolo Vinai (Chalmers Univ. Technology)
Development of a Steady State Reactor Physics Surrogate Model for the Idaho State University AGN-201 Digital Twin Using MOOSE
2:30–2:50PM PDT
Quinton J. Williams (Oregon State), Ryan H. Stewart (INL), Todd S. Palmer (Oregon State), Camille J. Palmer (Oregon State), Chad Pope (Idaho State), Ashley Shields (INL), Christopher Ritter (INL)
Sub-Pin Fission Product Sensitivity to Assembly and Core Models on High-Burnup Fuel and Comparison to Experimental Measurements
2:50–3:10PM PDT
Andrew Conant (ORNL), Mehdi Asgari (ORNL), Aaron Graham (ORNL), Greg Balco (LLNL)
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