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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Smarter waste strategies: Helping deliver on the promise of advanced nuclear
At COP28, held in Dubai in 2023, a clear consensus emerged: Nuclear energy must be a cornerstone of the global clean energy transition. With electricity demand projected to soar as we decarbonize not just power but also industry, transport, and heat, the case for new nuclear is compelling. More than 20 countries committed to tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050. In the United States alone, the Department of Energy forecasts that the country’s current nuclear capacity could more than triple, adding 200 GW of new nuclear to the existing 95 GW by mid-century.
Sunday, July 20, 2025|8:00AM–12:00PM EDT
Price: $49
Organizer: Joffrey Dorville (ANL)
OpenMC is a general purpose Monte Carlo neutron and photon transport simulation code. It is capable of simulating 3D models based on constructive solid geometry with second-order surfaces as well as CAD-based geometries. It also has built-in capabilities for activation/depletion to track material evolution with time. This workshop will present a brief overview of the code and its growing list of features, and a walk-through on how to setup input files using the Python API using nuclear reactor examples. The workshop will also demonstrate how to leverage powerful Python packages for post-processing of results. Participants should bring their laptop to follow along and run OpenMC. A link will be provided to access the software on a cloud computing platform.
Attendees will indeed be running jobs interactively at the workshop. We find this to be a much more enjoyable experience than watching hours of powerpoint presentations!
OpenMC is open source so there are no licensing requirements. As the description above alludes to, participants will need to have a laptop with an internet connection and a web browser, but they don't need to have anything else preinstalled.
