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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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PWR Corrosion Control in the Nuclear Industry
As many Pressurized Water Reactors (PWRs) approach or exceed 40 years of operation, maintaining asset integrity under aging infrastructure, tight outage schedules, and strict ALARA (As Low As Reasonably Achievable) mandates is a real challenge.
Technical Session|Nuclear Criticality Safety
Friday, April 4, 2025|9:00–10:20AM MDT|Mirage/Thunderbird
Session Chair:
Matthew J. Lazaric
Alternate Chair:
Yuliia Trujillo
Session Organizer:
Ashley Machado
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LLNL Criticality Safety Handbook Project
9:00–9:20AM MDT
David A. Cerny (Univ. California, Berkeley), Alan Yamanaka (LLNL)
Paper
Simulated Pulsed Neutron Experiments of the Inherently Safe Subcritical Assembly
9:20–9:40AM MDT
Alessandro Ingegno (Univ. California, Berkeley), Daniel J. Siefman (Univ. California, Berkeley), William J. Zywiec (LLNL)
Explicit Modeling of B4C in Neutron Absorber Plates
9:40–10:00AM MDT
Eirena M. Klemes (NCSU)
Real-Time Neutron Source Localization Using the NoMAD Detector and Random Forest Regression
10:00–10:20AM MDT
Natalie L. Cannon (Georgia Tech), Nicholas W. Thompson (LANL), Jesson D. Hutchinson (LANL), Steven R. Biegalski (Georgia Tech), Anna S. Erickson (Georgia Tech), Mark Smith-Nelson (LANL)
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