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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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Oklo now trading on NYSE
After completing its business combination with AltC Acquisition Corp, Oklo Inc. began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol OKLO this past Friday, May 10.
The company is aiming to provide clean, reliable, affordable nuclear energy to customers across the artificial intelligence, data center, energy, defense, and industrial markets. Sam Altman, chairman of Oklo since 2015 and former chief executive of AltC, called the first day on the NYSE a milestone for the entire team.
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.)
Paper
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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