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Fuel Cycle & Waste Management
Devoted to all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle including waste management, worldwide. Division specific areas of interest and involvement include uranium conversion and enrichment; fuel fabrication, management (in-core and ex-core) and recycle; transportation; safeguards; high-level, low-level and mixed waste management and disposal; public policy and program management; decontamination and decommissioning environmental restoration; and excess weapons materials disposition.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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Advanced nuclear company Oklo Inc. has new leadership for its board of directors as billionaire Sam Altman is stepping down from the position he has held since 2015. The move is meant to open new partnership opportunities with OpenAI, where Altman is CEO, and other artificial intelligence companies.
Technical Session|Nuclear Data and Nuclear Data Evaluations
Tuesday, April 29, 2025|1:00–2:40PM MDT|E.P. Ensley B
Session Chair:
Gavin Ridley (Aalo Atomics)
Alternate Chair:
Matthew Lazaric (Univ. New Mexico)
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Machine Learning Applied to the Prediction of (n, 2n) Cross Sections
1:00–1:25PM MDT
L. Morgan (AWE), A. Stott (AWE), S. Sullivan (University of Surrey)
Paper
The Influence of Parent Feeding on Delayed-Neutron Group Parameter Estimation from Weighted Nonlinear Least-Squares Regressions
1:25–1:50PM MDT
Yanuar Ady Setiawan (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), Douglas A. Fynan (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology)
Predicting (n,p) and (n,𝛼) Cross Sections Using Decision Trees
1:50–2:15PM MDT
Rohan Gaya (Univ. Cambridge), Valeria Raffuzzi (Univ. Cambridge), Eugene Shwageraus (Univ. Cambridge), Lee Morgan (AWE)
Development of a Representative Molten Chloride Fast Reactor Model to Assess the Impact of Nuclear Data
2:15–2:40PM MDT
Rakim Hirji (Georgia Tech), Germina Procop (ORNL), Friederike Bostelmann (ORNL), Rabab Elzohery (ORNL)
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