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Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy
The mission of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division (NNPD) is to promote the peaceful use of nuclear technology while simultaneously preventing the diversion and misuse of nuclear material and technology through appropriate safeguards and security, and promotion of nuclear nonproliferation policies. To achieve this mission, the objectives of the NNPD are to: Promote policy that discourages the proliferation of nuclear technology and material to inappropriate entities. Provide information to ANS members, the technical community at large, opinion leaders, and decision makers to improve their understanding of nuclear nonproliferation issues. Become a recognized technical resource on nuclear nonproliferation, safeguards, and security issues. Serve as the integration and coordination body for nuclear nonproliferation activities for the ANS. Work cooperatively with other ANS divisions to achieve these objective nonproliferation policies.
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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|Deterministic Transport Methods and Applications
Wednesday, April 30, 2025|8:00–9:40AM MDT|Lawrence A
Session Chair:
Ben Yee (LLNL)
Alternate Chair:
Joe Zerr (LANL)
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Heuristic-Based Adaptive Mesh Refinement Applied to Ray Effect Mitigation Methods
8:00–8:25AM MDT
Kevin C. Sawatzky (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), April J. Novak (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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Robust Positive and Monotone Schemes on Nonorthogonal Quadratures for Highly Anisotropic Scattering
8:25–8:50AM MDT
Charles Bienvenue (Polytechnique Montréal), Ahmed Naceur (Polytechnique Montréal), Jean-François Carrier (Université de Montréal), Alain Hébert (Polytechnique Montréal)
Assessing AI-Enhanced Single-Sweep Approximations for Transport Problems with Forward-Peaked Scattering in Slab Geometry
8:50–9:15AM MDT
Japan K. Patel (Ohio State), Matthew C. Schmidt (Washington Univ. St. Louis), Anthony Magliari (Varian Medical Systems), Todd A. Wareing (Varian Medical Systems)
Sweep-Based Uncollided-Flux Treatment On Unstructured Grids
9:15–9:40AM MDT
Connor Woodsford (TAMU), Jean C. Ragusa (TAMU), Jim E. Morel (TAMU)
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