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Oklo’s Isotope Test Reactor achieves criticality
Oklo’s Groves Isotope Test Reactor became the fifth Department of Energy–authorized reactor to achieve criticality under the agency’s authorization process, it was announced earlier today.
Criticality was reached at 9:19 p.m. (EDT) on Wednesday at the company’s Groves facility in Lockhart, Texas, according to the DOE.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MCD
Tuesday, June 17, 2025|3:15–5:00PM CDT|Armitage
Session Chair:
Moataz Harb
Alternate Chair:
Sebastian Schunert
Session Organizer:
Koroush Shirvan
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Analytical Benchmarks for Unresolved Resonance Probability Table Sampling
3:15–3:35PM CDT
Brian C. Kiedrowski (Univ. Michigan)
Paper
Tensorization of the Neutron Transport Equation with Discontinuous Isogeometric Analysis
3:35–3:55PM CDT
Patrick Myers (Univ. Michigan), Majdi I. Radaideh (Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor), Brian C. Kiedrowski (Univ. Michigan)
Adaptive Mesh Refinement Applied to Unstructured Mesh Tallies in Cardinal-OpenMC
3:55–4:15PM CDT
Kevin C. Sawatzky (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Ebny W. Ahammed (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Paul P. Wilson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Patrick C. Shriwise (ANL), Paul Romano (ANL), April Novak (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Hybrid Lattice Boltzmann-Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Approach for Neutron Transport Equation
4:15–4:35PM CDT
Atharva Deshpande (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Student Section), Rizwan-uddin LNU (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Verification of the Finite Element Method Energy Discretization in SCEPTRE
4:35–4:55PM CDT
Harley Hanes (Sandia National Laboratories, North Carolina State University), Brian Freno (Sandia), Shawn D. Pautz (Sandia)