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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Call for 2026 ANS Special Award suggestions
With this year’s awards already presented at the American Nuclear Society Annual Conference in June, the ANS Honors and Awards (H&A) Committee has set its sights on planning for next year’s distinctions. To that end, the H&A Committee is now soliciting suggested topics for the 2026 Special Award.
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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