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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Nano to begin drilling next week in Illinois
It’s been a good month for Nano Nuclear in the state of Illinois. On October 7, the Office of Governor J.B. Pritzker announced that the company would be awarded $6.8 million from the Reimagining Energy and Vehicles in Illinois Act to help fund the development of its new regional research and development facility in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MCD
Tuesday, November 19, 2024|1:00–2:45PM EST|Biscayne 3
Session Chair:
Majdi Radaideh (Univ. Michigan)
Alternate Chair:
Xingang Zhao
Session Organizer:
Koroush Shirvan
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Comparison of Hybrid and Pure Machine Learning Models in Limited Data Scenarios
1:00–1:20PM EST
Aidan Furlong (NCSU), Xingang Zhao (ORNL), Bob Salko (ORNL)
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OpenMC Variance Reduction by Adjoint Spatial Distribution Source Sampling
1:20–1:40PM EST
Bamidele Ebiwonjumi (MIT), Ethan Peterson (MIT)
Study of the Impact of the New Chlorine-35 Evaluation on Molten-Salt Reactors Operation
1:40–2:00PM EST
Amr Sadek (NCSU), Fadel Nasr (NCSU), Muhammad Altahhan (NCSU), Tommy Cisneros (TerraPower), Maria Avramova (NCSU), Yousry Azmy (NCSU), Kostadin Ivanov (NCSU)
Nuclear Data Uncertainty Quantification in LFR Pin Cell Using SANDY and Serpent
2:00–2:20PM EST
Carles Montoliu (NCSU), Spencer Ercanbrack (NCSU), Muhammad Altahhan (NCSU), David Holler (NCSU), Kostadin Ivanov (NCSU), Maria Avramova (NCSU)
Evaluating the Uncertainty Effects of Carbon Nuclear Data on Pebble Bed Reactor Physics: A Comparative Study of ENDF/B-VII.1 and ENDF/B-VIII.0
2:20–2:40PM EST
Amr Sadek (NCSU), Mahmoud Yaseen (NCSU), Spencer Ercanbrack (NCSU), Muhammad Altahhan (NCSU), Xu Wu (NCSU), Kostadin Ivanov (NCSU)
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