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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 NCSD|Cosponsored by NNPD
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Jesse D. Norris (LLNL)
Alternate Chair:
Jesson D. Hutchinson (LANL)
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Mich Leana (American Nuclear Society)
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Status of the KRUSTY Benchmark Modeling and Uncertainty Analysis
Jeffrey A. Favorite (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Travis J. Grove (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Rene G. Sanchez (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Kristin N. Smith (Texas A&M University College Station), Theresa E. Cutler (Los Alamos National Laboratory), George E. McKenzie (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Jesson D. Hutchinson (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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Fast-Spectrum Critical Assemblies with a Pb-HEU Core Surrounded by a Copper Reflector
George E. McKenzie (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Joetta M. Goda (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Theresa E. Cutler (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Jesson D. Hutchinson (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Kelsey Amundson (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
TEX-HEU: Integral Experiments with Highly Enriched Uranium and Polyethylene
Catherine G. Percher (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Dave P. Heinrichs (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), William J. Zywiec (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Anthony J. Nelson (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Jesse D. Norris (University of California Berkeley)
Update on the Benchmark Analysis of the Jupiter Experiments: Plutonium Moderated by Lead
Jesson D. Hutchinson (Los Alamos National Laboratory), George E. McKenzie (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Theresa E. Cutler (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Joetta M. Goda (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Alexander T. McSpaden (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Critical Unresolved Region Integral Experiment Execution
David K. Hayes (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Rene G. Sanchez (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Joetta M. Goda (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Jesson D. Hutchinson (Los Alamos National Laboratory), George E. McKenzie (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Travis J. Grove (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Theresa E. Cutler (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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