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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Godzilla is helping ITER prepare for tokamak assembly
ITER employees stand by Godzilla, the most powerful commercially available industrial robot available. (Photo: ITER)
Many people are familiar with Godzilla as a giant reptilian monster that emerged from the sea off the coast of Japan, the product of radioactive contamination. These days, there is a new Godzilla, but it has a positive—and entirely fact-based—association with nuclear energy. This one has emerged inside the Tokamak Assembly Preparation Building of ITER in southern France.
Technical Session
Monday, October 4, 2021|1:20–3:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Richard Vasques (The Ohio State Univ.)
Session Organizer:
Patrick S. Brantley (LLNL)
Student Producer:
Thomas Folk (Univ. of Michigan)
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Theory and Generation Methods for N-ary Stochastic Mixtures with Markovian Mixing Statistics
1:20–1:45PM EDT
Aaron Olson (Sandia), Shawn Pautz (Sandia), Dan Bolintineanu (Sandia), Emily Vu (Univ. of Michigan)
Paper
Benchmark Comparisons of Monte Carlo Algorithms for One-Dimensional N-ary Stochastic Media
1:45–2:10PM EDT
Emily H. Vu (Univ. of Michigan), Patrick S. Brantley (LLNL), Aaron J. Olson (Sandia), Brian C. Kiedrowski (Univ. of Michigan)
Amnesia Radius Versions of Conditional Point Sampling for Radiation Transport in 1D Stochastic Media
2:10–2:35PM EDT
Emily H. Vu (Univ. of Michigan), Aaron J. Olson (Sandia)
Markovian Binary Mixtures: Benchmarks for the Albedo Problem
2:35–3:00PM EDT
Coline Larmier (CEA), Eugene d'Eon (NVIDIA), Andrea Zoia (CEA)
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