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August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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DOE announces $17.5B in conditional loans for AP1000 builds
Earlier today, the Department of Energy announced that it has issued a conditional loan commitment to finance the purchase of “long-lead time items needed to rebuild America’s commercial nuclear supply chain.”
The American Nuclear Supply Chain Loans on offer are worth $17.5 billion and intended to help finance up to five projects to build a total of 10 new AP1000 reactors, with construction aimed to begin by 2030.
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)