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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Nominations open for CNTA awards
Citizens for Nuclear Technology Awareness is accepting nominations for its Fred C. Davison Distinguished Scientist Award and its Nuclear Service Award. Nominations for both awards must be submitted by August 1.
The awards will be presented this fall as part of the CNTA’s annual Edward Teller Lecture event.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPSD
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|10:00–11:45AM PDT|Banyan C
Session Chair:
Adam Hecht
Alternate Chair:
Alexander Barzilov
Session Organizer:
Irina I. Popova
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MCNP6 Evaluation of Exposure Dose Rates from a 252Cf-Based Neutron Irradiator for NAA
10:00–10:20AM PDT
Livia Fernandes Barros (MIT), Jiankai Yu (MIT), Michael Philip Short (MIT), Tolga Durak (MIT), Edward Lamere (MIT), Mitchell S. Galanek (MIT), Akmal Safarov (Samarkand State Univ.), Haruko M. Wainwright (MIT)
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Improvements on Oktavian Modeling with MCNP6.3
10:20–10:40AM PDT
Micky Dzur (LANL), Jerawan Armstrong (LANL), Chelsea D'Angelo (LANL)
Automated Vector Analysis Using Particle Swarm Optimization
10:40–11:00AM PDT
John C. Stooksbury (Bechtel)
Solution Grown Hybrid Halide Perovskite Single Crystals for Photon Detectors
11:00–11:20AM PDT
Kaleab Ayalew (Univ. Nevada, Las Vegas), Shea Tonkinson (Univ. New Mexico), Alexandria Ragsdale (Univ. New Mexico), Maya Narayanan Kutty (Univ. New Mexico), Ganesh Balakrishnan (Univ. New Mexico), Adam Hecht (Univ. New Mexico), Jaeyun Moon (Univ. Nevada, Las Vegas), Alexander Barzilov (Univ. Nevada, Las Vegas)
Tempest™: A Monte Carlo Code for Radiation Transport with Combined Native CAD and CSG Geometries
11:20–11:30AM PDT
Carl Hughes (Orthrus Software), Peter Taylor (Orthrus Software), Daniel Cork (Cerberus Nuclear)
Attachment — Tempest Paper
Integrating AI Assistant Technology into Cyclone™ for Simplified MCNP® Syntax Generation
11:30–11:40AM PDT
Daniel Cork (Cerberus Nuclear), John Billingsley (Cerberus Nuclear), Tu Nguyen (Cerberus Nuclear), Andrew Smith (Cerberus Nuclear), Peter Taylor (Orthrus Software)
Attachment — Cyclone Sage Paper
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