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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Technical Session
Wednesday, September 28, 2022|10:00AM–12:05PM PDT|Seaport
Session Chair:
Jeffrey A. Favorite (LANL)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
John Bess (JFoster & Associates, LLC)
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Multifaceted Coded Nuclear Data Libraries Assemblage, Verification and Validation: TENDL-2021
10:00–10:25AM PDT
J-Ch. Sublet (IAEA), Arjan Koning (IAEA), Dimitri Rochman (Paul Scherrer Institut), Mark R. Gilbert (UKAEA), Albert C. Kahler (Kahler Nuclear Data Services), Cedric Jouanne (CEA), Jaakko Leppanen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), Steven C. van der Marck (NRG), Paul Romano (ANL)
Paper
Using the MCNP6 Perturbation Capability for Source Nuclide Density Sensitivities
10:25–10:50AM PDT
Sensitivity Analysis in Coupled Radiation Transport Simulations
10:50–11:15AM PDT
Christopher M. Perfetti (Univ. New Mexico), Brian Franke (Sandia), Ron Kensek (Sandia), Aaron Olson (Sandia)
New Capabilities in SENSMG, a Tool for Multigroup Discrete Ordinates Sensitivity Analysis
11:15–11:40AM PDT
Jeffrey A. Favorite (LANL), Alexander R. Clark (LANL)
Availability of Shielding Benchmark Experiment Data in the ICSBEP Handbook
11:40AM–12:05PM PDT
John D. Bess (JFoster and Assoc.), Tatiana Ivanova (OECD NEA), Shuichi Tsuda (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
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