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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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World Bank, IAEA partner to fund nuclear energy
The World Bank and the International Atomic Energy Agency signed an agreement last week to cooperate on the construction and financing of advanced nuclear projects in developing countries, marking the first partnership since the bank ended its ban on funding for nuclear energy projects.
Technical Session
Thursday, September 29, 2022|1:15–3:20PM PDT|Seaport
Session Chair:
Ethan A. Asano (Georgia Tech)
Alternate Chair:
Ahmad Ibrahim (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Thomas M Miller (ORNL)
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Decay Dose Shielding Analysis with Hybrid Unstructured Mesh/Constructive Solid Geometry Monte Carlo Calculation and ADVANTG Acceleration
1:15–1:40PM PDT
Ahmad Ibrahim (ORNL), Tucker McClanahan (ORNL), Igor Remec (ORNL)
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Efficiency Comparison of Radiation Transport Variance Reduction Methods for Wide-Area Environmental Contamination Assay Applications
1:40–2:05PM PDT
E. Asano (Georgia Tech), S. Dewji (Georgia Tech)
An Overview of the Capabilities and Recent Developments of the FLUKA Particle Transport Code
2:05–2:30PM PDT
F. Salvat-Pujol (European Org. for Nuclear Research), V. Vlachoudis (European Org. for Nuclear Research)
Monte Carlo Delta Tracking with Next-Event Estimators
2:30–2:55PM PDT
Timothy P. Burke (LANL)
Improved Heavy Ion Inelastic Reaction Simulation of PHITS by JQMD2.1
2:55–3:20PM PDT
Tatsuhiko Ogawa (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Shintaro Hashimoto (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Tatsuhiko Sato (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Koji Niita (Research Org. for Information Science and Technology)
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