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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|Monte Carlo Methods and Applications
Tuesday, April 29, 2025|10:00–11:40AM MDT|Lawrence B
Session Chair:
Michael Rising (LANL)
Alternate Chair:
Ben Forget (MIT)
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Peacock: A Monte Carlo Code with Shared Memory Paralellism for Consumer-Grade Computing Architectures
10:00–10:25AM MDT
William C. Dawn (Studsvik Scandpower)
Paper
A Practical Guide to Parsing MCNP Inputs: Lessons Learned from Implementing Context-Free Parsing in MontePy
10:25–10:50AM MDT
Micah D. Gale (INL), Travis J. Labossiere-Hickman (INL), Brenna A. Carbno (INL)
Development of an Event Tracking Feature in OpenMC for Neutron Spectroscopy and Scatter Camera Systems
10:50–11:15AM MDT
Michel Saliba (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Paul Romano (ANL), John Tramm (ANL), Erik B. Knudsen (United Neux), Daniel Siefman (Univ. California, Berkeley), Andreas Pautz (Paul Scherrer Institute), Oskari Pakari (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Radiation Shielding Analysis of LEA in APS using FLUKA, PHITS and MARS Monte Carlo Radiation Transport Codes
11:15–11:40AM MDT
Sunil Chitra (ANL), Jeffrey Dooling (ANL)
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