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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
Wednesday, October 6, 2021|8:30–10:10AM EDT
Session Chairs:
Imre Pázsit (Chalmers University of Technology)
Anil Prinja (Univ. of New Mexico)
Session Organizers:
Anil K. Prinja (Univ. of New Mexico)
Student Producer:
Vincent Novellino (NC State Univ.)
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Lénárd Pál - His Time, His Professional Life, and Reminiscences of a Collaboration
8:30–8:55AM EDT
I. Pázsit (Chalmers Univ. of Technology)
Paper
The Contribution of Erwin Schroedinger to the Calculation of the Extinction Probability and its Comparison with the Work of Lénárd Pál
8:55–9:20AM EDT
M.M.R. Williams (Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine)
Pál-Bell Theory: Beyond the Neutron Number Distribution
9:20–9:45AM EDT
Anil K. Prinja (Univ. of New Mexico), Patrick F. O'Rourke (LANL)
Towards a More Realistic Analysis of Neutron Clustering
9:45–10:10AM EDT
Thomas M. Sutton (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
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