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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Blades-in turbine inspections at Quad Cities set new benchmark for Constellation
When Constellation decided to install replacement Alstom low-pressure turbines at three of its boiling water reactor plants more than 15 years ago, one benefit was knowing the new turbines should operate reliably—and without major inspections—for several years.
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)
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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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