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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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Commercial nuclear innovation "new space" age
In early 2006, a start-up company launched a small rocket from a tiny island in the Pacific. It exploded, showering the island with debris. A year later, a second launch attempt sent a rocket to space but failed to make orbit, burning up in the atmosphere. Another year brought a third attempt—and a third failure. The following month, in September 2008, the company used the last of its funds to launch a fourth rocket. It reached orbit, making history as the first privately funded liquid-fueled rocket to do so.
Technical Session|Sponsored by NCSD
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|4:30–6:15PM EDT
Session Chair:
Michael A. Fendler
Alternate Chair:
Theresa E. Cutler
Session Organizer:
Vladimir Sobes
Staff Producer:
Erica McGowan (ANS)
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Discovery of AMPX Thermal Scattering Law Processing Issue for Solid Moderators
Alex Lang (ORNL), Alex Shaw (ORNL), Chris Chapman (ORNL), William Marshall (ORNL)
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Reducing Direct Perturbation Uncertainty for High-Sensitivity Coefficients
T. M. Greene (ORNL), W. J. Marshall (ORNL), J. B. Clarity (ORNL)
Sensitivity Calculations for Systems with Polyethylene Reflector Materials Using CLUTCH
William Marshall (ORNL), Alex Lang (ORNL)
Uniformly Ordered Binary Decision Algorithm for Benchmark Experiment Correlations in Whisper Validation
Brian C. Kiedrowski (Univ. of Michigan)
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