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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
Tuesday, September 16, 2025|10:00–11:40AM CDT|Grand Salon DE
Session Chair:
Chris Chapman (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Travis M. Greene
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CALINS: A New ASNR Software for Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis in Nuclear Criticality Safety Evaluations
10:00–10:20AM CDT
PETILLON Barthélémi (ASNR), PERON Arthur (ASNR), VUIART Romain (ASNR), JAISWAL Vaibhav (ASNR), BROVCHENKO Mariya (ASNR)
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CRISTALV2.1: The Next Version of the Cristal V2 Criticality Calculation Package - News and Improvements
10:20–10:40AM CDT
Arnaud Entringer (ASNR), Coralie Carmouze (CEA), Francois-Xavier Giffard (CEA), Sebastien Lahaye (CEA), Stephane Mengelle (CEA), Tangi Nicol (CEA), Arthur Peron (ASNR), Odile Petit (CEA), Julien Taforeau (ASNR), Romain Vuiart (ASNR)
MCNP Criticality Calculation Support using Cyclone Sage AI Assistant
10:40–11:00AM CDT
Daniel Cork (Orthrus Software), Tom Page (Cerberus Nuclear)
LATEC-2.0, the CRISTALV2.1 Package Workbench for Integrated Criticality Modeling
11:00–11:20AM CDT
Arthur Peron (ASNR), Arnaud Entringer (ASNR)
Learning from Transitioning between Criticality Codes, including the Development of a Modelling Library
11:20–11:30AM CDT
Shaun Digwood (Urenco Capenhurst)
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