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Reactor Physics
The division's objectives are to promote the advancement of knowledge and understanding of the fundamental physical phenomena characterizing nuclear reactors and other nuclear systems. The division encourages research and disseminates information through meetings and publications. Areas of technical interest include nuclear data, particle interactions and transport, reactor and nuclear systems analysis, methods, design, validation and operating experience and standards. The Wigner Award heads the awards program.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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Technical Session
Thursday, October 7, 2021|8:30–10:10AM EDT
Session Chair:
Andrew Holcomb (ORNL)
Session Organizers:
Benoit Forget (MIT)
William Wieselquist (ORNL)
Student Producer:
Vincent Novellino (NC State Univ.)
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Multigroup Material Cross-Sections Generation With SCALE 6.2.3 for Deterministic Neutron Transport Calculations: Application to a PWR Fuel Element Analysis
8:30–8:55AM EDT
Antonella Labarile (Universitat Politecnica Valencia), Arturo Vivancos (Universitat Politècnica València), Alvaro Bernal (Nuclear Safety Council), Teresa Barrachina (Universitat Politècnica València), Rafael Miró (Universitat Politècnica de València), Gumersindo Verdu (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia)
Paper
Best Estimate Schemes in Lattice Calculations for Industrial Cases, With the Help of a New Leakage Synthetic Algorithm
8:55–9:20AM EDT
B. Vezzoni (Framatome), S. Santandrea (CEA), L. Graziano (Framatome), I. Zmijarevic (CEA)
A Group-Dependent Equivalent Dancoff Factor Cell Method Applied to AIC Control Rod Calculations
9:20–9:45AM EDT
Li Mao (CEA), Igor Zmijarevic (CEA), Richard Sanchez (CEA), Nicolas Gerard Castaing (CEA)
Fuel Assembly Analyses With Resonance Calculation Using Energy Spectrum Expansion Method
9:45–10:10AM EDT
Ryoichi Kondo (Nagoya Univ.), Tomohiro Endo (Nagoya Univ.), Akio Yamamoto (Nagoya Univ.), Satoshi Takeda (Osaka University), Hiroki Koike (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries), Kazuya Yamaji (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries), Daisuke Sato (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries)
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