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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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University of Rochester and Focused Energy establish $6.9 million partnership
Focused Energy and the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) have established a $6.9 million partnership agreement to collaborate on fundamental challenges in inertial fusion energy.
Technical Session|Nuclear Criticality Safety (NCSD)
Tuesday, June 2, 2026|10:00–11:45AM MDT|Room 11
Session Chair:
Benjamin Martin (GE Vernova)
Alternate Chair:
Amy E. van der Vyver (Sellafield Limited)
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Using the SCALE DOUBLEHET Feature to Simulate a Uranyl Phosphate Slurry
10:00–10:20AM MDT
Tracy E. Stover (Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC)
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Thermal neutron transmission measurements at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source
10:20–10:40AM MDT
Kemal Ramic (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Goran Arbanas (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Luke Daemen (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Iyad I. Al-Qasir (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Jesse Brown (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Chris W. Chapman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Klaus H. Guber (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Luiz C. Leal (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Hassina Bilheux (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Jean-Christophe Bilheux (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Kevin Yahne (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Shimin Tang (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Chen Zhang (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), A.F.M. D. Santos (Quantum Condensed Matter Div. ORNL), Jamie Molaison (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Chris Ridley (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Jasmine Hinton (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Trevor G. Aguirre (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Jose Ignacio Marquez Damian
The Importance of the ANSI/ANS-8.28 Standard for Nuclear Criticality Safety
10:40–11:00AM MDT
Douglas G. Bowen (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Nuclear Data Induced Uncertainty in VALID Benchmarks using ENDF/B-VIII.1
11:00–11:20AM MDT
Travis M. Greene (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Jesse Brown (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Bounding NCS Geometry Assumptions: When Simplification Preserves or Fails Safety
11:20–11:40AM MDT
Konrad P. Kulesza (URENCO USA), Charlotta Sanders (Chorlotta E. Sanders, PhD, PE, Sanders Engineering; University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA)
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