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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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NNSA awards BWXT $1.5B defense fuels contract
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration has awarded BWX Technologies a contract valued at $1.5 billion to build a Domestic Uranium Enrichment Centrifuge Experiment (DUECE) pilot plant in Tennessee in support of the administration’s efforts to build out a domestic supply of unobligated enriched uranium for defense-related nuclear fuel.
Technical Session|Methods
Wednesday, April 24, 2024|1:30–3:15PM PDT|Franciscan C
Session Chair:
Majdi I. Radaideh (Univ. of Michigan)
Alternate Chair:
Carlo Fiorina (Texas A&M Uni.)
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Comparison of Various DNN Modelling Strategies for Assembly Node Averaged Multigroup Cross Section Representation for Nodal Codes
1:30–1:50PM PDT
Yi Meng Chan (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Jan Dufek (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
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An Alternative Approach for Group Constants Regression Based on Supervised Learning Techniques
1:50–2:10PM PDT
Lorenzo Loi (Politecnico di Milano), Stefano Riva (Politecnico di Milano), Carolina Introini (Politecnico di Milano), Enrico Padovani (Politecnico di Milano), Francesca Giacobbo (Politecnico di Milano), Antonio Cammi (Politecnico di Milano)
Predicting PWR Fuel Assembly CIPS Susceptibility with Convolutional Neural Networks: Performance and Uncertainty Quantification
2:10–2:30PM PDT
Aidan Furlong (NCSU), Farah Alsafadi (NCSU), Scott Palmtag (NCSU), Andrew Godfrey (Veracity Nuclear), Stanley Hayes (Duke Power), Xu Wu (NCSU)
Monte Carlo with Single-Cycle Latency: Optimization of a Continuous Energy Cross Section Lookup Kernel for AI Accelerator Hardware
2:30–2:50PM PDT
John Tramm (ANL), Bryce Allen (ANL), Kazutomo Yoshii (ANL), Andrew Siegel (ANL)
Advancements in the Genetic-Driven Optimisation of the Few-Group Structures for Lead Fast Reactors Analysis
2:50–3:10PM PDT
A. Aimetta (Politecnico di Torino), N. Abrate (Politecnico di Torino), M. Massone (ENEA), S. Dulla (Politecnico di Torino)
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