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Nuclear Criticality Safety
NCSD provides communication among nuclear criticality safety professionals through the development of standards, the evolution of training methods and materials, the presentation of technical data and procedures, and the creation of specialty publications. In these ways, the division furthers the exchange of technical information on nuclear criticality safety with the ultimate goal of promoting the safe handling of fissionable materials outside reactors.
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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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Advanced nuclear company Oklo Inc. has new leadership for its board of directors as billionaire Sam Altman is stepping down from the position he has held since 2015. The move is meant to open new partnership opportunities with OpenAI, where Altman is CEO, and other artificial intelligence companies.
Technical Session|Deterministic Transport Methods and Applications
Monday, April 28, 2025|10:00–11:40AM MDT|Lawrence A
Session Chair:
Brendan Kochunas (Univ. Michigan)
Alternate Chair:
Ben Collins (Veracity Nuclear)
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Recent Extensions of the Whole-Core Modelling Features in the WIMS® Reactor Physics Code
10:00–10:25AM MDT
Glynn Hosking (Amentum), Kajetan Streciwilk (Amentum), Kornelia Wolodzko (Amentum), Brendan Tollit (Amentum)
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SIGAR: An APOLLO3® -Based Framework for PWR Analysis
10:25–10:50AM MDT
Nicolas Gérard Castaing (CEA), Eve L. Ménédeu (CEA), Blaise Mathon (CEA), Amélie Rouchon (CEA), Neïl Zaim (CEA)
Scarabée : A Free and Open-Source Lattice Physics Code
10:50–11:15AM MDT
Hunter Belanger (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Parth Singh (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Global Symmetry Relations for Efficient COMET Core Calculations
11:15–11:40AM MDT
Dingkang Zhang (Georgia Tech), Farzad Rahnema (Georgia Tech)
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