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Accelerator Applications
The division was organized to promote the advancement of knowledge of the use of particle accelerator technologies for nuclear and other applications. It focuses on production of neutrons and other particles, utilization of these particles for scientific or industrial purposes, such as the production or destruction of radionuclides significant to energy, medicine, defense or other endeavors, as well as imaging and diagnostics.
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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|Monte Carlo Methods and Applications
Monday, April 28, 2025|1:00–2:40PM MDT|Lawrence B
Session Chair:
Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Tech)
Alternate Chair:
David Griesheimer (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
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A Hybrid Cross Section Generation Method Using Monte Carlo Codes for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Nodal Diffusion Analysis
1:00–1:25PM MDT
Jacob Smith (Georgia Tech), Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Tech)
Paper
Clarification on the Various Methods of Calculating the P1 Transport Cross Section Using Monte Carlo Codes
1:25–1:50PM MDT
Vidor H. Lujan (Georgia Tech), Bailey Painter (Georgia Tech), Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Tech)
Multigroup Cross Section Generation with the Shift Monte Carlo Code
1:50–2:15PM MDT
Tara Pandya (ORNL), Friederike Bostelmann (ORNL), Donny Hartanto (ORNL), Steven Hamilton (ORNL), Matthew Jessee (ORNL), Nicholas Luciano (ORNL), Tarek Ghaddar (ORNL)
Implementation of the Iterated Fission Probability Method in OpenMC to Compute Adjoint-Weighted Kinetics Parameters
2:15–2:40PM MDT
Joffrey Dorville (ANL), Luke Labrie-Cleary (Copenhagen Atomics), Paul K. Romano (ANL)
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