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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
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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