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Studsvik applies to build more reactors; Sweden seeks majority control of SMR company
New developments in Sweden’s nuclear energy industry continue to make headlines. Last week, Swedish engineering services firm Studsvik submitted an application to build between 600 MWe and 1,400 MWe of new nuclear power capacity “at and around” its Nyköping Municipality headquarters. Separately, the Swedish government is looking to acquire a majority ownership stake in Videberg Kraft AB.
Technical Session|Monte Carlo Methods and Applications
Tuesday, April 29, 2025|1:00–2:40PM MDT|Lawrence B
Session Chair:
Valeria Raffuzzi (Univ. Cambridge)
Alternate Chair:
Paul Cosgrove (Univ. Cambridge)
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Polygonal Functional Expansion Tallies Using Transformed Zernike Polynomials
1:00–1:25PM MDT
Joseph F. Specht IV (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), April J. Novak (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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Using Moment-Based Functional-Expansion Tallies to Construct the Linear Discontinuous Finite-Element Flux in Tetrahedral-Mesh Monte Carlo Simulations
1:25–1:50PM MDT
Pablo A. Vaquer (LANL), Michael E. Rising (LANL), Joel A. Kulesza (LANL), Colin A. Weaver (LANL), Simon R. Bolding (LANL)
Working with Bézier Curves as Nonorthogonal Bases for Functional Expansion Tallies
1:50–2:15PM MDT
Micah D. Gale (INL), Patrick Shriwise (ANL), Paul Wilson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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Does Inherent Randomness in Monte Carlo Transport Calculations Mitigate the Effect of Poor Random Number Generators?
2:15–2:40PM MDT
Gibson D. Prall (Y-12 National Security), Christopher M. Perfetti (Univ. New Mexico)