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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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The current status of heat pipe R&D
Idaho National Laboratory under the Department of Energy–sponsored Microreactor Program recently conducted a comprehensive phenomena identification and ranking table (PIRT) exercise aimed at advancing heat pipe technology for microreactor applications.
Technical Session|Methods
Monday, April 22, 2024|3:30–5:15PM PDT|Continental Ballroom 2
Session Chair:
Rodolfo Ferrer (Studsvik Scandpower)
Alternate Chair:
Sandra Dulla (Politecnico di Torino)
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Response Matrix Benchmark for the 1D Transport Equation with Matrix Scaling
3:30–3:50PM PDT
B.D. Ganapol (Univ. Arizona), J.K. Patel (Univ. Michigan)
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Synthetic Perturbation as Flux Initializer for the Method of Characteristics Solver of APOLLO3®
3:50–4:10PM PDT
A. Gammicchia (CEA), S. Santandrea (CEA), A. Brighenti (Framatome)
Surface Characteristics Scheme for Solving the Transport Equation in Extruded and Unstructured 3D Geometries
4:10–4:30PM PDT
Arthur Le Bars (CEA), Simone Santandrea (CEA), Sandra Dulla (Politecnico di Torino)
Linear Source Approximation in the Random Ray Method
4:30–4:50PM PDT
Rufus Neame (Univ. Cambridge), Paul Cosgrove (Univ. Cambridge)
Implementation of the Discontinuous Galerkin Method into FENNECS and Other New Improvements for LWR Analysis
4:50–5:10PM PDT
Romain Henry (GRS), Jeremy Bousquet (GRS), Armin Seubert (GRS)
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