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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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NRC okays construction permits for Hermes 2 test facility
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced yesterday that it has directed staff to issue construction permits to Kairos Power for the company's proposed Hermes 2 nonpower test reactor facility to be built at the Heritage Center Industrial Park in Oak Ridge, Tenn. The permits authorize Kairos to build a facility with two 35-MWt test reactors that would use molten salt to cool the reactor cores.
Advances in Nuclear Nonproliferation Technology and Policy Conference (ANTPC 2023)
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 15, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EST|Lincoln West
Session Chair:
Patrick Moosir (Sandia)
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Bridging the Fidelity Gap in System-Scale Nuclear Fuel Cycle Simulations for Realistic State-Level Nuclear Material Accounting
10:00–10:20AM EST
Kathryn A. Mummah (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Paper
Monte Carlo Based Sample Optimization for Microcalorimeter Decay Energy Spectroscopy
10:20–10:40AM EST
Sophie Weidenbenner (Oregon State), Camille Palmer (Oregon State), Mark Croce (LANL), Katrina E. Koehler (LANL), Daniel McNeel (LANL), Timothy Ockrin (LANL), Katherine Schreiber (LANL), Rico Schoenemann (LANL), Matthew Carpenter (LANL), Ryan Fitzgerald (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Anomaly Detection in Gamma Source Search Spectra with Hopfield Neural Network on Quantum Computer Simulator
10:40–11:00AM EST
Luis Valdez (Univ. Texas, San Antonio), Miltos Alamaniotis (Univ. Texas, San Antonio), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
Optimizing a Neutron Multiplicity Counter Using Design of Experiments Methods
11:00–11:20AM EST
Rachel C. Connick (LANL), Nikolas D. Economy (LANL), John A. Corder (TAMU), Sarah E. Sarnoski (LANL), Rollin E. Lakis (LANL)
Development of Reactor Physics Models for Generating a Surrogate Model for the ISU AGN-201 Digital
11:20–11:40AM EST
Quinton Williams (Oregon State), Ryan Stewart (INL), Chad Pope (Idaho State), Camille Palmer (Oregon State), Todd Palmer (Oregon State), Ashley Shields (INL), John Darrington (INL), Mark Schanfein (INL), Gustavo Reyes (INL), Christopher Ritter (INL)
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