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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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When Constellation decided to install replacement Alstom low-pressure turbines at three of its boiling water reactor plants more than 15 years ago, one benefit was knowing the new turbines should operate reliably—and without major inspections—for several years.
Technical Session|Radiative Transfer Methods
Monday, April 28, 2025|3:15–4:55PM MDT|E.P. Ensley A
Session Chair:
Alex R. Long (LANL)
Alternate Chair:
Nick Gentile (LLNL)
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Accurate Reduced Floating-Point Precision Implicit Monte Carlo
3:15–3:40PM MDT
Simon Butson (Oregon State), Mathew Cleveland (LANL), Alex Long (LANL), Todd Palmer (Oregon State)
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Reduced Memory Discretization Scheme for Time-Dependent Thermal Radiative Transfer Problems
3:40–4:05PM MDT
Rylan C. Paye (NCSU), Joseph M. Coale (LANL), James S. Warsa (LANL), Dmitriy Y. Anistratov (NCSU), Connor A. Woodsford (LANL), Jim E. Morel (TAMU)
Implicit Opacities in Thermal Radiative Transfer
4:05–4:30PM MDT
Samuel Olivier (LANL), Quincy A. Huhn (TAMU), James S. Warsa (LANL)
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Deterministic Particle Transport for Reducing Noise in Thermal Radiative Transfer
4:30–4:55PM MDT
Benjamin L. Estrada (Oregon State), Todd S. Palmer (Oregon State), Nicholas A. Gentile (LLNL)
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