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Accelerator Applications
The division was organized to promote the advancement of knowledge of the use of particle accelerator technologies for nuclear and other applications. It focuses on production of neutrons and other particles, utilization of these particles for scientific or industrial purposes, such as the production or destruction of radionuclides significant to energy, medicine, defense or other endeavors, as well as imaging and diagnostics.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|2:15–4:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Jason Hearne (Texas A&M Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. of California Berkeley)
Session Organizer:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Staff Producer:
Susan Gallier (ANS)
This is a standing RPD session with papers on all reactor physics design, validation and operational experience topics of contemporary interest.
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Reactor Physics Analyses of the Big-BUSTER Testing Environment in TREAT
John D. Bess (INL), Nicolas E. Woolstenhulme (INL), Matthew R. Ramirez (INL), Wesley T. Smith (INL), Aaron S. Epiney (INL)
Paper
Review: Monte Carlo Neutronics Validation Studies of Burned Nuclear Material
Sean P. Martinson (Texas A&M Univ.), Sunil S. Chirayath (Texas A&M Univ.)
nTRACER Solutions to C5G7-TD Neutron Noise Simulation Benchmark
Junsu Kang (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Han Gyu Joo (Seoul Nat'l Univ.)
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Flexible Cross Section Generation in OpenMC with TOGA (Tool for Optimization and Group-Structure Analysis)
Miriam A. Kreher (MIT), Jack Galloway (LANL), Blake Wilkerson (ORNL), Joshua Richard (LANL)
Design and Heat Generation Rate Analysis of LEU-UAlx Dispersion Target Plates for Irradiation in the High Flux Isotope Reactor
Nolan Goth (ORNL), Trevor Howard (ORNL), Jorge Navarro (ORNL), Eliott Fountain (ORNL), Nesrin Cetiner (ORNL), Chris Bryan (ORNL)
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