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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Technical Session|Methods Development
Monday, July 21, 2025|10:00AM–12:05PM EDT|Gulf Room
Session Chair:
Matthew A. Jessee
Alternate Chair:
William C. Dawn
Session Organizer:
Scott P. Palmtag
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Peacock: A Monte Carlo Transport Code with Depletion for Reactor Modeling
10:00–10:25AM EDT
William C. Dawn (Studsvik), Charles Wemple (Studsvik)
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Studsvik's Core Management System 5: Overview and Recent Developments
10:25–10:50AM EDT
R. Ferrer (Studsvik), J. Hykes (Studsvik), T. Bahadir (Studsvik), G. Grandi (Studsvik), T. Simeonov (Studsvik), J. Rhodes III (Studsvik)
Sensitivity Study of Epithermal Resonance Up-scattering Using the SCALE/Polaris-PARCS Code Procedure for LWR Physics Analysis
10:50–11:15AM EDT
Kang-Seog Kim (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
A Low-memory Eigenvalue Sensitivity Calculation Method for Deterministic Neutron Transport
11:15–11:40AM EDT
Rufus Neame (Univ. Cambridge), Paul Cosgrove (Univ. Cambridge)
SCALE 6.3 Enhancements to the Polaris Lattice Physics Code for Light-Water Reactor Confirmatory Analysis
11:40AM–12:05PM EDT
Matthew A. Jessee (ORNL), Ugur Mertyurek (ORNL), Kang Seong Kim (ORNL), Shane W. D. Hart (ORNL), Andrew M. Holcomb (ORNL), Jin Whan Bae (ORNL), Byoung Kyu Jeon (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
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