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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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Dragonfly, a Pu-fueled drone heading to Titan, gets key NASA approval
Curiosity landed on Mars sporting a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) in 2012, and a second NASA rover, Perseverance, landed in 2021. Both are still rolling across the red planet in the name of science. Another exploratory craft with a similar plutonium-238–fueled RTG but a very different mission—to fly between multiple test sites on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon—recently got one step closer to deployment.
On April 25, NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) announced that the Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s icy moon passed its critical design review. “Passing this mission milestone means that Dragonfly’s mission design, fabrication, integration, and test plans are all approved, and the mission can now turn its attention to the construction of the spacecraft itself,” according to NASA.
Technical Session|Severe Accidents
Thursday, August 24, 2023|10:45AM–12:25PM EDT|Fairchild East/West
Session Chair:
Fulvio Mascari
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
David L. Luxat
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Application of Artificial Neural Network to Identify Severe Accident State from Plant Signal Data
10:45–11:05AM EDT
Paul McMinn (Fauske and Assoc.), Nick Karancevic (Fauske and Assoc.), Chan Y. Paik (Fauske and Assoc.), Wei Wei (China Nuclear Power Operation Technology Corp.), Ma Guoyang (China Nuclear Power Operation Technology Corp.)
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Simulating the Power Noise Response due to Voiding in the NBSR During the February 3rd Incident
11:05–11:25AM EDT
Lap-Yan Cheng (Brookhaven), Athi Varuttamaseni (Brookhaven), Peter Kohut (Brookhaven), Anil Gurgen (Nat'l Institute of Standards & Technology), Dagistan Sahin (Nat'l Institute of Standards & Technology), Abdullah G. Weiss (Nat'l Institute of Standards & Technology)
Simulation of QUENCH-06 Experiment by MELCOR v2.2 with Uncertainty Analysis
11:25–11:45AM EDT
M. Garbarini (Politecnico di Milano), G. Agnello (Univ. Palermo), A. Bersano (ENEA), F. Gabrielli (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), L. Luzzi (Politecnico di Milano), F. Mascari (ENEA)
Evaluation of Accident Tolerant Fuel Performance Under Long-Term Station Blackout Conditions
11:45AM–12:05PM EDT
Chris Faucett (Sandia), Bradley Beeny (Sandia), Jesse Phillips (Sandia), Karen Vierow Kirkland (TAMU)
Application of Lower Head Thermal-Mechanical Creep Failure Module in LHF Experiment
12:05–12:25PM EDT
Hao Yang (Xi'an Jiaotong Univ.), Bin Zhang (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.), Pengcheng Gao (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.), Jianqiang Shan (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.)
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