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September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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The when, where, why, and how of RIPB design
The American Nuclear Society’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policy Committee (RP3C) held another presentation in its monthly Community of Practice (CoP) series.
Watch the full webinar here.
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)
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)
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees)
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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