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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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The spark of the Super: Teller–Ulam and the birth of the H-bomb—rivalry, credit, and legacy at 75 years
In early 1951, Los Alamos scientists Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam devised a breakthrough that would lead to the hydrogen bomb [1]. Their design gave the United States an initial advantage in the Cold War, though comparable progress was soon achieved independently in the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom.
Technical Session|Verification, Validation, and Benchmark Experiment Design
Monday, April 28, 2025|1:00–2:40PM MDT|E.P. Ensley A
Session Chair:
Sam Pasmann (Thea Energy)
Alternate Chair:
Cole Gentry (Univ. Texas, Austin)
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Single Grid Error Estimate in Two-Dimensional Neutron Transport Problems
1:00–1:25PM MDT
Ben Whewell (Univ. Notre Dame), Ryan G. McClarren (Univ. Notre Dame)
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Verification Methods for the AGORA Geometry Navigation Engine of the TRIPOLI-5 Monte Carlo Code
1:25–1:50PM MDT
Coline Larmier (CEA), Davide Mancusi (CEA), Vincenzo di Blasi (CEA), Andrea Zoia (CEA)
Presented by Mikolaj Adam Kowalski (CEA)
Ants Solution to IAEA-Hex Kinetics Benchmark
1:50–2:15PM MDT
Antti Rintala (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)
Validation of OpenMC Using the KRUSTY Component Critical Experiments
2:15–2:40PM MDT
Michael Anthony Mendes (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), April J. Novak (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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