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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Tuesday, June 18, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Jasmine G
Session Chair:
Kelsey Amundson
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Alternate Chair:
Jesse Brown
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Current Overview of Neutron Moderator Thermal Scattering Kernels for HALEU-Fueled Advanced Reactors
1:00–1:20PM PDT
Iyad I. Al-Qasir (ORNL), K. Lisa Reed (ORNL), W.J. Marshall (ORNL), Mathieu N. Dupont (ORNL), Chris W. Chapman (ORNL), Donny Hartanto (ORNL), Walid A. Metwally (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
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Nuclear Data Sensitivity/Uncertainty Studies of Tantalum-Reflected Systems
1:20–1:40PM PDT
J. Hutchinson (LANL), R. Bulso (LANL), T. Cutler (LANL), N. Kleedtke (LANL), R. Little (LANL), I. Michaud (LANL), M. Rising (LANL)
Data Assimilation Using Deterministic Sampling Method to Selectively Reduce Uncertainty due to Thermal Neutron Scattering Law for Light Water
1:40–2:00PM PDT
Yoshinari Harada (Nagoya Univ.), Hibiki Yamaguchi (Nagoya Univ.), Tomohiro Endo (Nagoya Univ.), Akio Yamamoto (Nagoya Univ.), Kenichi Tada (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Neutronics Study of HTR-10: Impact of Graphite Porosity Representation in ENDF/B-VIII.1 TSLs
2:00–2:20PM PDT
Kemal Ramic (ORNL), Iyad Al-Qasir (ORNL), Friederike Bostelmann (ORNL), Chris W. Chapman (ORNL), Anne Campbell (ORNL), Kyle B. Grammer (ORNL), Zain Karriem (ORNL), Jose Ignacio Marquez Damian (European Spallation Source ERIC), Mark Baird (ORNL), Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL), Luke Daemen (ORNL), Eric Novak (ORNL), Jesse Brown (ORNL), Goran Arbanas (ORNL), Luiz Leal (ORNL), Germina Ilas (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
Cross-Section Sensitivity Studies on Sodium-Cooled Fast Neutron Reactor Isotopes
2:20–2:30PM PDT
A.C. Hellinger (PNNL), C.E. Goodson (PNNL), S.M. Lyons (PNNL)
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