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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
Monday, October 4, 2021|10:40AM–12:20PM EDT
Session Chair:
Thomas M. Evans (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Student Producer:
Khaldoon Al-Dawood (NC State Univ.)
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Enabling Large-Scale Depletion in Serpent 2 Monte Carlo Code by Collision-Based Domain Decomposition
10:40–11:05AM EDT
Ana Jambrina (LUT Univ.), Manuel García (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), Jaakko Leppänen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)
Paper
An Asynchronous GPU-Enabled Cross Section Lookup Algorithm for Monte Carlo Transport Simulations
11:05–11:30AM EDT
Alicia Klinvex (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Paul E. Burke (Georgia Institute of Technology), Kyle E. Remley (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Neale Petrillo (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), David P. Griesheimer (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Adam Bird (ANSWERS Software Service, Jacobs)
Domain Decomposed Random Ray Neutron Transport on GPU-Based Systems
11:30–11:55AM EDT
John R. Tramm (ANL), Andrew R. Siegel (ANL)
Artificial Neural Network Performance Models for Parallel Particle Transport Calculations
11:55AM–12:20PM EDT
J. Dillon Herring (Texas A&M Univ.), W. Daryl Hawkins (Texas A&M Univ.), Marvin L. Adams (Texas A&M Univ.)
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