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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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When Constellation decided to install replacement Alstom low-pressure turbines at three of its boiling water reactor plants more than 15 years ago, one benefit was knowing the new turbines should operate reliably—and without major inspections—for several years.
Technical Session|Methods
Wednesday, April 24, 2024|3:30–5:15PM PDT|Continental Ballroom 2
Session Chair:
William Dawn (Studsvik Scandpower)
Alternate Chair:
Charlie Latimer (Rolls Royce)
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Stability Analyses of the Monte Carlo Neutron Transport with Thermal-Hydraulics Feedback
3:30–3:50PM PDT
Kaiwen Li (Tsinghua Univ.), Nan An (Tsinghua Univ.), Hao Luo (Tsinghua Univ.), Jingang Liang (Tsinghua Univ.), Ding She (Tsinghua Univ.), Zhihong Liu (Tsinghua Univ.), Kan Wang (Tsinghua Univ.)
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Coarse Mesh Finite Difference Acceleration for Pebble Tracking Transport in Griffin
3:50–4:10PM PDT
Yaqi Wang (INL), Joshua Hanophy (INL), Namjae Choi (INL)
Improved Decoupled Diffusion Synthetic Acceleration Scheme for Neutral Particle Transport
4:10–4:30PM PDT
Joseph M. Coale (LANL), James S. Warsa (LANL)
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Assessing Nonlinear Diffusion Acceleration for Boltzmann Fokker Planck Equation in Slab Geometry
4:30–4:50PM PDT
Japan K. Patel (Univ. Michigan), Barry D. Ganapol (Univ. Arizona), Martha M. Matuszak (Univ. Michigan)
An Adaptive Model for Decay Heat Estimation Using Scram Curves
4:50–5:10PM PDT
Evgeny Nikitin (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf), Emil Fridman (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf), Alexander Ponomarev (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
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