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Decommissioning & Environmental Sciences
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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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PNNL seeks high-energy neutrons from SpaceX launch of Polaris Dawn
When a SpaceX rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on September 10 (see video here), sending a crewed commercial mission into low Earth orbit, an experiment designed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory was onboard. Several high-purity metal samples will orbit Earth and absorb cosmic radiation for five days—including that from the Van Allen radiation belt—to help the lab answer questions about the radiation environment for manned space missions, according to a news release from PNNL.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Jasmine D
Session Chair:
Carlo Fiorina (TAMU)
Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni (UC Berkeley)
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Subgroup Resonance Self-Shielding Method with Two-Term Functionalization for VERA-MPACT
3:15–3:35PM PDT
Kang Seog Kim (ORNL), Mehdi Asgari (ORNL)
Paper
Dancoff-Based Wigner-Seitz Approximation for the Embedded Self-Shielding Method in SCALE/Polaris
3:35–3:55PM PDT
Kang Seog Kim (ORNL), Matthew. A. Jessee (ORNL), Andrew M. Holcomb (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
Uncertainty Propagation for the Fission Matrix Method for the Molten Salt Fast Reactor
3:55–4:15PM PDT
Maximiliano Dalinger (Penn State), Elia Merzari (Penn State), William Walters (Penn State), Saya Lee (Penn State)
Development of an Analytical Fixed Source Solver for the 1D Multigroup SN Equations
4:15–4:35PM PDT
Jilang Miao (Penn State), Miaomiao Jin (Penn State)
3DBF -- A Diffusion Theory Code for Fast Reactor Calculations
4:35–4:45PM PDT
Randolph Schwarz (PNNL), David Wootan (PNNL), Dion Sunderland (PNNL), Ron Omberg (PNNL)
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