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Fusion Energy
This division promotes the development and timely introduction of fusion energy as a sustainable energy source with favorable economic, environmental, and safety attributes. The division cooperates with other organizations on common issues of multidisciplinary fusion science and technology, conducts professional meetings, and disseminates technical information in support of these goals. Members focus on the assessment and resolution of critical developmental issues for practical fusion energy applications.
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Materials in Nuclear Energy Systems (MiNES 2023)
December 10–14, 2023
New Orleans, LA|New Orleans Marriott
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Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” at 70
Seventy years ago to the day, President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his historic address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. (See December 2023 Nuclear News's “Leaders” column to read the reflections of Kathryn Huff, the Department of Energy’s assistant secretary for nuclear energy, on the speech’s anniversary.)
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)
Summary
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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