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Nuclear Installations Safety
Devoted specifically to the safety of nuclear installations and the health and safety of the public, this division seeks a better understanding of the role of safety in the design, construction and operation of nuclear installation facilities. The division also promotes engineering and scientific technology advancement associated with the safety of such facilities.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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EnergySolutions awarded $84.6M in nuclear navy contracts
Utah-based EnergySolutions has announced it has been awarded two contracts worth a combined $84.6 million from the U.S. Navy to support waste management operations across multiple Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program sites. According to the company, the indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts will enable the secure transportation, receipt, processing, recycling and reduction, and disposal of nuclear materials from key naval sites nationwide.
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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