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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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CFS working with NVIDIA, Siemens on SPARC digital twin
Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a fusion firm headquartered in Devens, Mass., is collaborating with California-based computing infrastructure company NVIDIA and Germany-based technology conglomerate Siemens to develop a digital twin of its SPARC fusion machine. The cooperative work among the companies will focus on applying artificial intelligence and data- and project-management tools as the SPARC digital twin is developed.
Technical Session|Special Session on Random Ray Transport
Tuesday, April 29, 2025|3:15–4:55PM MDT|E.P. Ensley A
Session Chair:
John Tramm (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
Elliott Biondo (ORNL)
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Linear Source Random Ray on GPU
3:15–3:40PM MDT
Rufus Neame (Univ. Cambridge), Paul Cosgrove (Univ. Cambridge), John Tramm (ANL)
Paper
Correcting k-eff-Normalisation-Induced Bias in the Time-Dependent Random Ray Method
3:40–4:05PM MDT
Maximilian Kraus (Univ. Cambridge), Paul Cosgrove (Univ. Cambridge), John Tramm (ANL), Eugene Shwageraus (Univ. Cambridge)
Coupled 1D Neutronics and Thermal-Hydraulics Modelling with the Random Ray Method
4:05–4:30PM MDT
Lucy Bland (Univ. Cambridge), Paul Cosgrove (Univ. Cambridge)
Randomized Quasi-Monte Carlo Sampling in the Random Ray Method for Neutron Transport Simulations
4:30–4:55PM MDT
Samuel Pasmann (Thea Energy), John Tramm (ANL)
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