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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Technical Session|Depletion Analysis Methods
Wednesday, April 30, 2025|10:00–11:40AM MDT|Molly Brown
Session Chair:
Jean-Christophe Sublet (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority)
Alternate Chair:
Rodolfo M. Ferrer (Studsvik)
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SMR Core Depletion and Spent Fuel Characterization with Nodal Code Ants
10:00–10:25AM MDT
Topias Kähkönen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)
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Verification of CASMO5 for Higher Enrichment and High Burnup Lattice Physics Analyses
10:25–10:50AM MDT
Petri Forslund Guimarães (Studsvik), Joshua Hykes (Studsvik), Rodolfo Ferrer (Studsvik)
Research Reactor Core Loading Optimization: Enabling Machine Learning Applications by Employing Surrogate Models
10:50–11:15AM MDT
Julia Bartos (Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group), Benjaminas Marcinkevicius (Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group), Bernard Erasmus (Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group), Christian Fedon (Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group), Edo Frederix (Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group)
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Bayesian Optimization for PWR-Core Loading Pattern Optimization
11:15–11:40AM MDT
Zhou Yuancheng (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.), Li Yunzhao (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.), Wu Hongchun (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.), Wei Shen (Conexus Nuclear Inc.)
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