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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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MURR expansion set back by Mo. state legislature
Spirits were high last month when a ribbon cutting was held at the University of Missouri for a $20 million, three-story, 47,000-square-foot addition, dubbed MURR West, to the MURR research reactor facilities.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MCD
Tuesday, June 9, 2020|4:35–6:20PM EDT
Session Chair:
Dmitriy Anistratov (NC State Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Katherine E. Royston (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Steven P. Hamilton
Staff Producer:
Daryl Rizzo (American Nuclear Society)
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DAG-OpenMC: CAD-Based Geometry in OpenMC
Patrick C. Shriwise (ANL), Xiaokang Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Andrew Davis (UK Atomic Energy Authority)
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Extending MPACT to 2D Hexagonal Geometry
Kevin J. Connolly (ORNL), Aaron M. Graham (ORNL)
Application of MATLAB PDE Toolbox for the IAEA-3D PWR Benchmark
Abiodun Ajirotutu (Texas A&M Univ., Kingsville), Xue Yang (Texas A&M Univ., Kingsville)
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