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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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NRC proposed rule for licensing reactors authorized by DOE, DOD
Nuclear reactor designs approved by the Department of Energy or Department of Defense could get streamlined pathways through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s commercial licensing process should applicants wish to push the technology into the civilian sector.
A proposed rule introduced April 2 by the NRC would “improve NRC licensing review efficiency, where applicable, by explicitly establishing by regulation an additional means for reactor applicants to demonstrate the safety functions of their reactor designs, and thus, would contribute to the safe and secure use and deployment of civilian nuclear energy technologies.”
Technical Session|Methods
Monday, April 22, 2024|10:15AM–12:00PM PDT|Continental Ballroom 2
Session Chair:
David Griesheimer (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
Alternate Chair:
Valeria Raffuzzi (Univ. Cambridge)
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Nemo: A Centralized Model Representation for Reactor Physics Solvers
10:15–10:35AM PDT
P.E. Burke (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), S.J. Douglass (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), D.F. Gill (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), D.P. Griesheimer (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), M.W. Hackemack (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), B.R. Nease (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
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Assessment of Heuristics for the Automated Generation of 2D Method of Characteristics Mesh
10:35–10:55AM PDT
Kyle Vaughn (Univ. Michigan), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. Michigan)
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Geometric Acceleration Structures to Speed Up Cell Searches in OpenMC
10:55–11:15AM PDT
Saad Amin (Mission San Jose High School), Gavin Ridley (MIT), Benoit Forget (MIT)
A Recursive Subdivision Algorithm for Delta-Tracking on Bezier Curve Geometries in SCONE
11:15–11:35AM PDT
Jamie K. Edwards (Univ. Cambridge), Andrew Davis (UKAEA), Eugene Shwageraus (Univ. Cambridge)
A Delta-Tracking Method that Supports Finite-Element Material Properties in Mesh-Based Monte Carlo Codes
11:35–11:55AM PDT
Pablo A. Vaquer (LANL), Michael E. Rising (LANL), Joel A. Kulesza (LANL), Colin A. Weaver (LANL), Colin J. Josey (LANL)
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