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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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BREAKING NEWS: Trump issues executive orders to overhaul nuclear industry
The Trump administration issued four executive orders today aimed at boosting domestic nuclear deployment ahead of significant growth in projected energy demand in the coming decades.
During a live signing in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump called nuclear “a hot industry,” adding, “It’s a brilliant industry. [But] you’ve got to do it right. It’s become very safe and environmental.”
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Tuesday, June 9, 2020|2:30–4:15PM EDT
Session Chair:
Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Pavel V Tsvetkov (LANL)
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Staff Producer:
Jessica Vazquez (American Nuclear Society)
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Advances in MCNP for Reactor Calculations
R. B. Wilkerson (LANL), G. W. McKinney (LANL), C. J. Josey (LANL), M. E. Blood (LANL), J. D. Galloway (LANL), J. C. Armstrong (LANL), H. R. Trellue (LANL)
Paper
Single Channel Design Based on Artificial Intelligence for Molten Salt Reactors
Mehmet Turkmen (Univ. of Illinois), Kathryn D. Huff (Univ. of Illinois)
Development of FRENDY Nuclear Data Processing Code: Generation Capability of Multi-group Cross Sections from ACE File
Akio Yamamoto (Nagoya Univ.), Tomohiro Endo (Nagoya Univ.), Kenichi Tada (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
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