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Isotopes & Radiation
Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
Standards Program
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NWMO chooses vendors for Canadian repository
Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization has selected five companies it is to work with to design and plan the organization’s proposed deep geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel. As the owner of the project, the NWMO will be working with WSP Canada, Peter Kiewit Sons (Kiewit), Hatch Ltd., Thyssen Mining Construction of Canada, and Kinectrics.
Technical Session
Monday, October 4, 2021|1:20–3:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Mathew Cleveland (LANL)
Session Organizer:
Jeffery D. Densmore (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
Student Producer:
William Dawn (NC State Univ.)
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A Hybrid Monte Carlo-FDSA Method for k-Eigenvalue Problem
1:20–1:45PM EDT
Jiahao Chen (NC State Univ.), Jason Hou (NC State Univ.), Kostadin Ivanov (NC State Univ.)
Paper
Error Quantification for Improved Deterministic Truncation of Monte Carlo Method
1:45–2:10PM EDT
Inhyung Kim (KAIST), Inyup Kim (KAIST), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
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General Formulation of Functional Expansion Tallies for Regular 2D Geometries in Serpent 2 Monte Carlo Code
2:10–2:35PM EDT
Ana Jambrina (LUT Univ.), Jaakko Leppänen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)
Functional Expansion Tally-Based Shannon-Fisher Complexity Metric for Fission Source Convergence Analysis in Serpent 2 Monte Carlo Code
2:35–3:00PM EDT
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