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Members focus on the dissemination of knowledge and information in the area of power reactors with particular application to the production of electric power and process heat. The division sponsors meetings on the coverage of applied nuclear science and engineering as related to power plants, non-power reactors, and other nuclear facilities. It encourages and assists with the dissemination of knowledge pertinent to the safe and efficient operation of nuclear facilities through professional staff development, information exchange, and supporting the generation of viable solutions to current issues.
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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
Thursday, October 7, 2021|8:30–10:10AM EDT
Session Chair:
Bojan Petrovic (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Session Organizer:
Terry S. Haut (LLNL)
Student Producer:
Nicholas Herring (Univ. of Michigan)
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Robust Relaxation-Free Multiphysics Simulations via Power-Iteration-Level-Coupled CMFD Acceleration in MPACT
8:30–8:55AM EDT
Qicang Shen (Univ. of Michigan), Sooyoung Choi (Univ. of Michigan), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. of Michigan)
Paper
Frequency Transform Method for Transient Analysis of Nuclear Reactors
8:55–9:20AM EDT
Miriam A. Kreher (MIT), Samuel Shaner (C-Zero), Benoit Forget (MIT), Kord Smith (MIT)
Reduced-Order Modeling of Coupled Neutronics and Fluid Dynamics in the Zero-Power Molten Salt Fast Reactor
9:20–9:45AM EDT
Peter German (Texas A&M Univ.), Mauricio E. Tano (Texas A&M Univ.), Jean C. Ragusa (Texas A&M Univ.)
The NILO-CMFD Method for Iteratively Solving Multiphysics Neutron Transport - Thermal Hydraulic Problems
9:45–10:10AM EDT
Nickolas J. Adamowicz (Univ. of Michigan), Annalisa Manera (Univ. of Michigan), Edward W. Larsen (Univ. of Michigan)
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