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August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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The drive to Kairos Power’s reactor demonstration site in Oak Ridge, Tenn., is not only scenic—it’s historic. Nearly 85 years ago, roughly 30,000 construction workers transformed orchards and farmland into a key Manhattan Project site. Depending on your route, you may pass by one of the three gatehouses that were once military checkpoints controlling access to Atomic Energy Commission production facilities.
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)