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Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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“Life is a roller coaster. It’s best ridden with your hands in the air.”
Craig Piercycpiercy@ans.org
I find myself saying the expression above a lot these days—to my kids, my wife, my friends, and colleagues. Most recently, I said it to the person sitting next to me after the pilot of our plane—bound for Reagan National Airport a day after the collision of AA flight 5342 and a military Blackhawk helicopter—aborted the landing at the last minute.
I am not sure where I picked up this pronouncement, but I find it to be apropos to the topsy-turvy moment where we find ourselves in 2025. In addition to the first U.S. commercial airline crash in 15 years, we are witnessing a new presidential administration in its infancy playing by the Silicon Valley rules of “move fast, break things.” We’ve seen DeepSeek, the low-cost Chinese AI that reportedly uses 50–75 percent less energy than its NVIDIA-powered counterparts, tank Constellation’s market value by more than 20 percent in one late-January trading day.
Technical Session|Sponsored by IRD
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|4:50–6:30PM EST
Session Chair:
Jeremy Licht (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
Walid Mohamed (ANL)
Session Organizers:
Erik Wilson (ANL)
Lin-Wen Hu
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Staff Producer:
Rick Michal (American Nuclear Society)
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Computational Software Developed by RERTR for the Conversion of Research and Test Reactors to LEU Fuel
Jeremy R. Licht (ANL), Erik H. Wilson (Argonne National Laboratory), Arne P. Olson (ANL)
Paper
Reactor Analysis Code Benchmark to AFIP-7 Experiment
Erik H. Wilson (Argonne National Laboratory), Walid Mohamed (Argonne National Laboratory), David Jaluvka (Argonne National Laboratory), Micheal A. Smith (Argonne National Laboratory), Lara M. Peguero (Argonne National Laboratory), John A. Stillman (Argonne National Laboratory)
The ADDER Software for Reactor Depletion and Fuel Management Analysis
John A. Stillman (Argonne National Laboratory), Erik H. Wilson (Argonne National Laboratory), Florent Heidet (Argonne National Laboratory), Adam G. Nelson (Argonne National Laboratory)
From CFD Simulation to Hot Channel Factor Estimation for the Conversion of Involute Plate Research Reactor
Yiqi Yu (Argonne National Laboratory)
Assessment of Reactor Kinetics Capability in RELAP5/MOD3.3 and PARET/ANL V7.6 to Support the Conversion of the University of Missouri Research Reactor to Low-Enriched Uranium Fuel
L. P. Foyto (University of Missouri-Columbia Research Reactor), K. Kutikkad (University of Missouri-Columbia Research Reactor), E. H. Wilson (Argonne National Laboratory), E. E. Feldman (Argonne National Laboratory), J. A. Stillman (Argonne National Laboratory), Dhongik S. Yoon (Argonne National Laboratory)
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