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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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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
Tuesday, October 5, 2021|10:40AM–12:20PM EDT
Session Chair:
Adam Nelson (ANL)
Session Organizer:
Jeffery D. Densmore (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
Student Producer:
Johnny Klemes (NC State Univ.)
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Algorithm for Free Gas Elastic Scattering Without Rejection Sampling
10:40–11:05AM EDT
Elliott Biondo (ORNL), Vladimir Sobes (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Andrew Holcomb (ORNL), Steven Hamilton (ORNL), Thomas Evans (ORNL)
Paper
Conditional Point Sampling Implementation for the GPU
11:05–11:30AM EDT
Luke J. Kersting (Sandia), Aaron Olson (Sandia), Kerry Bossler (Sandia)
Efficient Scoring Algorithm for Local Differential Operator Tallies in Large Models
11:30–11:55AM EDT
David P. Griesheimer (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Gabriel Kooreman (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
Probability Distribution Functions of the Number of Scattering Collisions in Electron Slowing Down
11:55AM–12:20PM EDT
Brian C. Franke (Sandia), Anil K. Prinja (Univ. of New Mexico)
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