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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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DOE considers recycling Paducah’s contaminated nickel
The Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Paducah Project Office is weighing options on reprocessing approximately 9,700 tons of contaminated nickel being stored at the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentucky.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MCD
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Jasmine B
Session Chair:
Jeremy Roberts
Alternate Chair:
Sebastian Schunert
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A Study on Simplified Energy and Geometry-Based MC for Recurring Equivalence to Continuous Energy MC
3:15–3:35PM PDT
Inhyung Kim (Univ. California, Berkeley), Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Paper
Investigation of Doppler Broadening Methods Within the Shift Monte Carlo Radiation Transport Code
3:35–3:55PM PDT
Amanda M. Bachmann (ANL), Seth R. Johnson (ORNL), Shane W.D. Hart (ORNL), Elliott D. Biondo (ORNL), Thomas M. Evans (ORNL)
Exploratory Data Analysis of Long-Term Meteorological Data at a DOE Site for Nuclear Safety
3:55–4:15PM PDT
Xiao-Ying Yu (ORNL)
Implementation and Verification of Element-Wise Density and Temperature Specifications in MCNP6 Unstructured Mesh Simulations
4:15–4:35PM PDT
Pablo A. Vaquer (LANL), Michael E. Rising (LANL), Joel A. Kulesza (LANL), Colin A. Weaver (LANL)
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New and Improved Capabilities in SCALE's Monte Carlo Code Shift
4:35–4:45PM PDT
Tara Pandya (ORNL), Tarek Ghaddar (ORNL), Matthew Jessee (ORNL), Rike Bostelmann (ORNL), Steven Hamilton (ORNL), Seth Johnson (ORNL)
Evolutionary Algorithm Fitting of X-Ray Fluorescence Data for Elemental Analysis
4:45–4:55PM PDT
Jason Clifford (ANL), Alexander Heifetz (ANL), Madis Michor (Univ. Illinois, Chicago), Mark Schlossman (Univ. Illinois, Chicago)
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