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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
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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