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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 RPD
Thursday, November 19, 2020|2:30–4:15PM EST
Session Chair:
Kristin Stolte (Texas A&M Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni
Session Organizer:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Staff Producer:
Jay Bogardus (American Nuclear Society)
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Implementation of Partial Current Discontinuity Factors in VARIANT Nodal Transport Analysis
Puran Deng (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Won Sik Yang (University of Michigan), Robert N. Wahlen (Niowave, Inc.), Chad P. Denbrock (Niowave Inc.), Terry L. Grimm (Niowave, Inc.)
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Analytic Insights into the Neutronic Characteristics of Neutron Moderators from MCNP Calculations
Donald K. Parsons (Los Alamos)
Energy Deposition in the OpenMC Monte Carlo Particle Transport Code
Paul K. Romano (Argonne National Laboratory), Andrew Johnson (Georgia Institute of Technology), Amanda L. Lund (Argonne National Laboratory), Jingang Liang (Tsinghua University)
Fast Reproduction of Time-dependent MOC Calculations using the Reduced Order Model based on the Proper Orthogonal and Singular Value Decompositions
Kosuke Tsujita (Nuclear Engineering, Ltd.), Tomohiro Endo (Nagoya University), Akio Yamamoto (Nagoya University)
Evaluating Methods for Modeling Disk Fuel Samples with SCALE
Tucker D. Sawyer (University of Texas at Austin), Kevin T. Clarno (University of Texas at Austin)
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