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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Russia withdraws from 25-year-old weapons-grade plutonium agreement
Russia’s lower house of Parliament, the State Duma, approved a measure to withdraw from a 25-year-old agreement with the United States to cut back on the leftover plutonium from Cold War–era nuclear weapons.
Technical Session|Special Session on Stochastic Geometry and Particle Branching Processes
Monday, April 28, 2025|10:00–11:40AM MDT|E.P. Ensley B
Session Chair:
Wei Ji (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Alternate Chair:
Patrick Brantley (LLNL)
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A Hierarchy of Parallel-Robust Stochastic Media Radiation Transport Models
10:00–10:25AM MDT
Aaron Olson (Sandia), Luke Kersting (Sandia), Kerry Bossler (Sandia), Revolution Rivera-Felix (Sandia)
Paper
Advances in Stochastic Geometry Modelling in MONK and MCBEND, the Importance of Stochastic Models, and an Approach to Validation
10:25–10:50AM MDT
Simon D. Richards (Amentum), Jessica A. Fildes (Amentum), Richard P. Hiles (Amentum), Brian J. Jones (Amentum), Paul N. Smith (Amentum)
Three-Point Correlations in Poisson Media
10:50–11:15AM MDT
Alec Shelley (Stanford), Aaron Olson (Sandia), Gianluca Geraci (Sandia)
The Stochastic Point Reactor Equation with Thermal Feedback
11:15–11:40AM MDT
Chen Dubi (Nuclear Research Center Negev), Anil K. Prinja (Univ. New Mexico)
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