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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Nominations open for CNTA awards
Citizens for Nuclear Technology Awareness is accepting nominations for its Fred C. Davison Distinguished Scientist Award and its Nuclear Service Award. Nominations for both awards must be submitted by August 1.
The awards will be presented this fall as part of the CNTA’s annual Edward Teller Lecture event.
Technical Session|Sensitivity Analysis and Uncertainty Quantification
Monday, April 28, 2025|1:00–2:40PM MDT|Horace Tabor
Session Chair:
Ben Murphy (Univ. of New Mexico)
Alternate Chair:
Kevin Clarno (Univ. Texas, Austin)
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Application of Fuel Depletion Chain Simplification to Experiment Analysis in the Advanced Test Reactor
1:00–1:25PM MDT
Travis J. Labossiere-Hickman (INL), Olin W. Calvin (INL)
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Uncertainty Quantification for Watts Bar 1 PWR Using High-Fidelity Whole Core Model in WIMS® and the Latin Hypercube Sampling Method
1:25–1:50PM MDT
Jean Lavarenne (Amentum), Tim Ware (Amentum), Magda Stefanowska-Skrodzka (Amentum), Kornelia Wolodzko (Amentum), William Poole (Amentum), Peter Smith (Amentum), Glynn Hosking (Amentum), Brendan Tollit (Amentum)
Uncertainty Quantification Of Fuel Assembly Bow In Pressurized Water Reactor Through a Thermomechanical Simulation
1:50–2:15PM MDT
Ali Abboud (CEA), Josselin Garnier (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Bertrand Leturcq (CEA), Julien Pacull (Framatome), Olivier Fandeur (CEA), Stanislas de Lambert (CEA)
Analytic Sensitivity Coefficients for Bethe's Solution of the Neutron Slowing Down Equation
2:15–2:40PM MDT
Colin A. Weaver (LANL), Michael E. Rising (LANL), Joel A. Kulesza (LANL), Pablo A. Vaquer (LANL)
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