ANS is committed to advancing, fostering, and promoting the development and application of nuclear sciences and technologies to benefit society.
Explore the many uses for nuclear science and its impact on energy, the environment, healthcare, food, and more.
Explore membership for yourself or for your organization.
Conference Spotlight
2026 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 15–18, 2026
Phoenix, AZ|Arizona Grand Resort & Spa
Latest Magazine Issues
Aug 2026
Jan 2026
2026
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
October 2026
Nuclear Technology
Fusion Science and Technology
August 2026
Latest News
Fuel loading process begins at Palisades
The Palisades nuclear power plant has drawn closer to restart, as plant staff began the process of loading fuel into the reactor vessel on Sunday morning.
The commencement of fuel loading places the Covert, Mich., facility in Mode 6—or the refueling stage—under the plant’s technical specifications, plant owner and operator Holtec International said in a news release. The Palisades reactor core consists of 204 fuel assemblies that include new fuel and partially used fuel from the plant’s most recent operating cycles. According to Holtec, the fuel loading is being conducted in accordance with plant procedures and technical specifications.
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)
To access paper attachments, you must be logged in and registered for the meeting.
Register NowLog In
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)
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees)
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)
