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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Chernobyl at 40 years: Looking back at Nuclear News
Sunday, April 26, at 1:23 a.m. local time will mark 40 years since the most severe nuclear accident in history: the meltdown of Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union.
In the ensuing four decades, countless books, documentaries, articles, and conference sessions have examined Chernobyl’s history and impact from various angles. There is a similar abundance of outlooks in the archives of Nuclear News, where hundreds of scientists, advocates, critics, and politicians have shared their thoughts on Chernobyl over the years. Today, we will take a look at some highlights from the pages of NN to see how the story of Chernobyl evolved over the decades.
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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