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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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The progress so far: An update on the Reactor Pilot Program
It has been about three months since the Department of Energy named 10 companies for its new Reactor Pilot Program, which maps out how the DOE would meet the goal announced by executive order in May of having three reactors achieve criticality by July 4, 2026.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|1:00–2:45PM CDT|Belmont
Session Chair:
Cihang Lu
Alternate Chair:
Guillaume Giudicelli
Session Organizer:
Zeyun Wu
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Advancing Nuclear Data with Machine-Learned Force Fields
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Jonathan L. Wormald (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Jose March-Rico (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Richard W. Smith (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Amelia J. Trainer (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Michael L. Zerkle (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
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Calculation of Sensitivity of Neutron Multiplication Factor During Fuel Depletion to Thermal Scattering Cross Sections of Hydrogen-1 Bounded in Light Water
1:20–1:40PM CDT
Go Chiba (Hokkaido Univ.)
Evaluating the Effect of Blatt-Biedenharn Formalism on Neutron Angular Scattering Behavior
1:40–2:00PM CDT
Charlotte Wickert (MIT), Benoit Forget (MIT)
DASSH Thermal Analysis Software Updates
2:00–2:20PM CDT
Micheal A. Smith (ANL)
A Neutronics Design Study of a Molten Salt Fast Reactor Core with Moderated Blanket for Long-Lived Fission Product Transmutation
2:20–2:40PM CDT
Ryan D. Willat (Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor), Puran Deng (Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor), Won Sik Yang (Univ. Michigan)
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