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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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MARVEL PDSA approval could serve as blueprint
MARVEL, the Microreactor Applications Research Validation and Evaluation project at Idaho National Laboratory, has had its preliminary documented safety analysis approved by the Department of Energy, marking a milestone in its development and serving as a potential outline for other microreactors in development.
Technical Session
Tuesday, October 5, 2021|3:30–5:10PM EDT
Session Chair:
Jae Chang (LANL)
Session Organizer:
Dmitriy Y. Anistratov (NC State Univ.)
Student Producer:
Thomas Folk (Univ. of Michigan)
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A Low-Rank Method for the Discrete Ordinate Transport Equation Compatible With Transport Sweeps
3:30–3:55PM EDT
Zhuogang Peng (Univ. of Notre Dame), Ryan G. McClarren (Univ. of Notre Dame)
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Heterogeneity, Hyperparameters, and GPUs: Towards Useful Transport Calculations Using Neural Networks
3:55–4:20PM EDT
Michael M. Pozulp (LLNL), Patrick S. Brantley (LLNL), Todd S. Palmer (Oregon State Univ.), Jasmina L. Vujic (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
An Accelerated Characteristics Method Including a Spatial Polynomial Expansion for Cross Sections
4:20–4:45PM EDT
A. Gammicchia (CEA Saclay), S. Santandrea (CEA Saclay), S. Dulla (Politecnico di Torino)
Solving Neutron Transport Problems With Sharp Boundary and Interior Layers Using the Shishkin Mesh
4:45–5:10PM EDT
Tseelmaa Byambaakhuu (The Ohio State Univ.), Dean Wang (The Ohio State Univ.)
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