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Accelerator Applications
The division was organized to promote the advancement of knowledge of the use of particle accelerator technologies for nuclear and other applications. It focuses on production of neutrons and other particles, utilization of these particles for scientific or industrial purposes, such as the production or destruction of radionuclides significant to energy, medicine, defense or other endeavors, as well as imaging and diagnostics.
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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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An open letter to Chris Wright
Craig Piercycpiercy@ans.org
Dear Secretary Wright:
On behalf of the U.S. nuclear professional community, I offer our sincere congratulations to you on your becoming the secretary of energy.
By now, I’m sure you have figured out that “Department of Energy” is a misnomer. If the Department of Government Efficiency ever requires truth in advertising, the DOE should be renamed the “Department of Nuclear Weapons, Security, Cleanup, and Sundry Energy and Science Programs.” That’s because more than 60 percent of the DOE’s budget is dedicated to “atomic energy defense activities”—making sure our nuclear bombs work, our aircraft carriers and submarines sail, and our Cold War messes get cleaned up.
Technical Session
Monday, October 4, 2021|10:40AM–12:20PM EDT
Session Chair:
Jaakko Leppanen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Ltd.)
Session Organizer:
Jeffery D. Densmore (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
Student Producer:
Nicholas Herring (Univ. of Michigan)
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Solving Eigenvalue Transport Problems With Negative Weights and Regional Cancellation
10:40–11:05AM EDT
Hunter Belanger (CEA Saclay), Davide Mancusi (CEA Saclay), Andrea Zoia (CEA Saclay)
Paper
Weighted Delta Tracking Performance Evaluation in the Presence of Localized Heavy Absorbers
11:05–11:30AM EDT
Valeria Raffuzzi (Univ. of Cambridge), Eugene Shwageraus (Univ. of Cambridge), Lee Morgan (AWE)
Woodcock Delta Tracking With Arbitrary Sampling Parameters in Fission and Fusion Reactor Models
11:30–11:55AM EDT
Impact of Sampling Strategies in the Polynomial Chaos Surrogate Construction for Monte Carlo Transport Applications
11:55AM–12:20PM EDT
Gianluca Geraci (Sandia), Aaron J. Olson (Sandia)
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