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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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ORNL to partner with Type One, UTK on fusion facility
Yesterday, Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced that it is in the process of partnering with Type One Energy and the University of Tennessee–Knoxville. That partnership will have one primary goal: to establish a high-heat flux facility (HHF) at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Bull Run Energy Complex in Clinton, Tenn.
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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