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Organized to promote the advancement of knowledge in the use of nuclear science and technologies in the aerospace application. Specialized nuclear-based technologies and applications are needed to advance the state-of-the-art in aerospace design, engineering and operations to explore planetary bodies in our solar system and beyond, plus enhance the safety of air travel, especially high speed air travel. Areas of interest will include but are not limited to the creation of nuclear-based power and propulsion systems, multifunctional materials to protect humans and electronic components from atmospheric, space, and nuclear power system radiation, human factor strategies for the safety and reliable operation of nuclear power and propulsion plants by non-specialized personnel and more.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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Pacific Fusion predicts “1,000-fold leap” in performance, net facility gain by 2030
Inertial fusion energy (IFE) developer Pacific Fusion, based in Fremont, Calif., announced this morning that it is on target to achieve net facility gain—more fusion energy out than all energy stored in the system—with a demonstration system by 2030, and backs the claim with a technical paper published yesterday on arXiv: “Affordable, manageable, practical, and scalable (AMPS) high-yield and high-gain inertial fusion.”
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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