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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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From renaissance to reality: Infrastructure for a global nuclear fuel cycle
Dale Klein
This article was adapted from the author’s speech during a plenary at the 21st International Symposium on the Packaging and Transportation of Radioactive Materials (PATRAM 2025), San Antonio, Texas, July 2025.
There has been a lot of discussion lately about reforming the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. But I want to be clear: When it comes to nuclear safety and security, there is no place for partisan politics. I support efforts to streamline regulatory processes, but the independence and integrity of the NRC must remain sacrosanct. If we are serious about expanding nuclear power and reclaiming our global leadership in nuclear technology, having a strong independent regulator is fundamental.
Right now, we’re on the edge of a global nuclear resurgence driven by rising demand from data centers, growing concerns about energy security, and the need to decarbonize industry.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MCD
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Jasmine B
Session Chair:
Jilang Miao
Alternate Chair:
Sebastian Schunert
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Development of Verification Methodology for Thermo-Mechanical Solver of MERCURY Fuel Performance Code
1:00–1:20PM PDT
Dong-hwa Lee (KAERI), Sung-Uk Lee (KAERI), Hyochan Kim (KAERI)
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Influence of Variance Reduction Techniques on the Wrong Results Obtained from Monte Carlo Radiation Transport Simulations when Random Number Stride is Exceeded
1:20–1:40PM PDT
Arief Rahman Hakim (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), Wooil Lee (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), Douglas A. Fynan (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology)
FMI-Based Multi-Fidelity and Multi-Scale Simulations of a Nuclear Reactor
1:40–2:00PM PDT
Thomas Guilbaud (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Carlo Fiorina (TAMU), Alessandro Scolaro (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Andreas Pautz (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Wrong Results when Random Number Stride is Exceeded in Monte Carlo Radiation Transport: Reanalysis of Legacy Stride Exceedance Study
2:00–2:20PM PDT
Arief Rahman Hakim (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), Douglas A. Fynan (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology)
Uncertainty Estimation by Correlated Sampling for the Neutronics Analysis of Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors by the iDTMC Methodology
2:20–2:40PM PDT
Sunjoo Yoon (KAIST), Inyup Kim (KAIST), Taesuk Oh (KAIST), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
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