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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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The when, where, why, and how of RIPB design
The American Nuclear Society’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policy Committee (RP3C) held another presentation in its monthly Community of Practice (CoP) series.
Watch the full webinar here.
Technical Session|Verification, Validation, and Benchmark Experiment Design
Tuesday, April 29, 2025|10:00–11:40AM MDT|E.P. Ensley A
Session Chair:
Ville Valtavirta (VTT Technical Research Centre)
Alternate Chair:
Cole Gentry (Univ. Texas, Austin)
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EDIM Local Power History and Burnup Inference Based on Destructive Assay Data
10:00–10:25AM MDT
Shiming Yin (Purdue Univ.), Tarikul Islam (Purdue Univ.), Ugur Mertyurek (ORNL), Germina Procop (ORNL), Hany Abdel-Khalik (Purdue Univ.)
Paper
Activation Calculation Comparison for FISPACT-II, ORIGEN, and OpenMC
10:25–10:50AM MDT
Jin Whan Bae (ORNL), Yves Robert (ORNL)
Multi-Cycle Neutronics Verification in the Kraken Framework
10:50–11:15AM MDT
Ville Valtavirta (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)
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Alpha Eigenvalue and Beta-Effective Calculations of High Multiplication Uranium Experiments
11:15–11:40AM MDT
William Zywiec (LLNL), Jesse Norris (LLNL), Samuel Varghese (LLNL), David Heinrichs (LLNL), Daniel Siefman (LLNL), Edward Lent (LLNL), Chuck Lee (LLNL), Anthony Nelson (LLNL)
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