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2027 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
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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.
Workshop
Thursday, April 4, 2024|1:00–4:00PM EDT|Eric J. Barron Innovation Hub Room 603
Session Organizer:
Luiz Aldeia Machado (Penn State University)
Want to learn about Monte Carlo methods and how to use a powerful, open-source software? Join our PSU students and Dr. April Novak (ANL/UIUC) for a workshop that will take attendees step-by-step through how to use/work with the OpenMC software. By the end of the workshop, all attendees should be able to: understand OpenMC’s capabilities, understand what the Monte Carlo method is, and model a pin cell and BWR example. All attendees are expected to bring their personal computers. No prior experience with using the software is required!
Speaker
April Novak
Dr. April Novak is an Assistant Professor of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Before joining the faculty at UIUC, she was a Maria Goeppert-Mayer Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2020. Her research focuses on multiphysics methods and applications, multiscale thermal hydraulics, Monte Carlo transport methods, reactor design and analysis, and high-performance computing.
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