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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NRC dockets construction permit for Dow, X-energy SMR
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted Dow’s construction permit application to build an X-energy small modular reactor in Seadrift, Texas.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPSD
Monday, June 12, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EDT|Marriott 1
Session Chair:
Sunil S. Chirayath
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Irina I. Popova
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Prompt Gamma Measurement from the Manganese Sulphate Bath
1:00–1:20PM EDT
Martin Schulc (Research Centre Rez), Tomas Czakoj (Research Cenre Rez), Michal Kostal (Research Cenre Rez), Evzen Losa (Research Cenre Rez), Evzen Novak (Research Cenre Rez), Jan Simon (Research Cenre Rez), Jan Rataj (Research Centre Rez)
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Development of Advanced Radionuclide Gamma spectrOmeter-2 (ARGO-2) for Low-Level Radionuclide Measurements
1:20–1:40PM EDT
Manish Sharma (PNNL), Jonathan Burnett (PNNL), Ryan O'Mara (PNNL), Allan Myers (PNNL)
Limitation of the Cosine Law for Large Isotropic Sources and Small Detectors in a Void
1:40–2:00PM EDT
Jeffrey A. Favorite (LANL), William M. Schmitt (Charles Stark Draper Lab.)
MCNP6.3 Unstructured Mesh Verfication of Oktavian Geometries
2:00–2:20PM EDT
Micky Dzur (LANL), Jerawan Armstrong (LANL), Chelsea D'Angelo (LANL)
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