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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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NRIC’s DOME “open for business”
On Wednesday, Idaho National Laboratory announced that the National Reactor Innovation Center’s Demonstration of Microreactor Experiments (DOME) test bed is now “open for business.”
With DOME’s opening, microreactor developers will soon be able to test, demonstrate, and validate their reactor designs. Rian Bahran, the Department of Energy’s deputy assistant secretary for nuclear reactors, called this “essential infrastructure” a “testament to our commitment to a robust nuclear future” and a key tool for “accelerating the development and deployment” of new energy technologies.
Sunday, July 20, 2025|1:00–5:00PM EDT
Beach Room
Price: $49
Organizer: William Dawn (Studsvik)
Peacock is a three-dimensional, continuous-energy, Monte Carlo code developed by Studsvik Scandpower, Inc. (SSP). Peacock is intended to augment the current offerings from SSP to model advanced, next-generation nuclear reactors. The code allows modeling of general geometries and includes capabilities for depletion. Peacock is designed for efficient use on commonly available, consumer-grade computing architectures and includes shared-memory (OpenMP) parallelism.
In addition to a presentation on the theoretical foundations of the Peacock methodologies, attendees will be running Peacock cases. By running Peacock, attendees will be able to investigate reactor physics phenomena (e.g., temperature dependences, depletion, etc.). Participants will need to bring their own laptop with a ssh client to access the Peacock computing resources that will be furnished by SSP.
No licensing is required as no code or executables will be provided to attendees. Attendees will only be able to run Peacock on resources provided by SSP.
