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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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Breaking ground on a new approach to construction
The drive to Kairos Power’s reactor demonstration site in Oak Ridge, Tenn., is not only scenic—it’s historic. Nearly 85 years ago, roughly 30,000 construction workers transformed orchards and farmland into a key Manhattan Project site. Depending on your route, you may pass by one of the three gatehouses that were once military checkpoints controlling access to Atomic Energy Commission production facilities.
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)
