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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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NN Asks: What did you learn from ANS’s Nuclear 101?
Mike Harkin
When ANS first announced its new Nuclear 101 certificate course, I was excited. This felt like a course tailor-made for me, a transplant into the commercial nuclear world. I enrolled for the inaugural session held in November 2024, knowing it was going to be hard (this is nuclear power, of course)—but I had been working on ramping up my knowledge base for the past year, through both my employer and at a local college.
The course was a fast-and-furious roller-coaster ride through all the key components of the nuclear power industry, in one highly challenging week. In fact, the challenges the students experienced caught even the instructors by surprise. Thankfully, the shared intellectual stretch we students all felt helped us band together to push through to the end.
We were all impressed with the quality of the instructors, who are some of the top experts in the field. We appreciated not only their knowledge base but their support whenever someone struggled to understand a concept.
Workshop
Sunday, October 3, 2021|9:00AM–1:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Barry Ganapol (Univ. of Arizona)
Student Producer:
William Dawn (NC State Univ.)
Did you ever wonder about the variety of solutions to solve the 1D monoenergetic neutron transport equation? Chances are you have not, but if you attend this workshop, you will have the answer — because it’s all about 1D transport solutions. In four hours, we will discuss as many of the following methods as time allows:
Our discussion covers the mathematical theory, the numerical formulation and the challenges of each (time permitting). The methods will be theoretically and numerically contrasted to feature their advantages and disadvantages. You might ask, “Why study such a basic transport problem with seemingly little practical value?” One answer is “benchmarking”. Because of simplicity, the 1D monoenergetic transport equation is the most widely solved transport equation in today’s transport community. A second answer is “intellectual enlightenment”. The solutions discussed touch upon a broad range of mathematical and numerical methods taught in the classroom. Specifically, we will discuss what constitutes extreme benchmarks, their application and limitation. Convergence acceleration, central to extreme benchmarks, will be introduced through a specially prepared benchmarking exercise.
If you are a serious student of transport theory and have the burning desire to learn more about analytical solutions from an expert in the field, you certainly do not want to miss this opportunity. The mystery of the 1D transport equation will be unraveled in an understandably consistent way. In addition, each participant, who completes the workshop, will receive a flash drive containing programs and examples of all solutions.
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