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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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Waste Management 2024: The symposia at 50
This year marked the 50th anniversary of Waste Management Symposia’s Waste Management Conference, held March 10–14 in Phoenix, Ariz. The event has grown significantly since the first Waste Management Conference in 1974, which attracted about 200 attendees. This year’s conference saw a record attendance of around 3,300 people from more than 20 different countries and boasted 235 technical sessions and 89 exhibitors.
Technical Session|Methods
Tuesday, April 23, 2024|1:30–3:15PM PDT|Franciscan D
Session Chair:
Scott P. Palmtag
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This session contains 4 papers related to current activities for analyzing OECD/NEA TVA WB1 Benchmark. The session will begin with a 20 minute introduction to the benchmark, and the first paper will be presented at 1:50pm PDT.
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VERA Solution to the Watts Bar Benchmark Problem
1:50–2:10PM PDT
Scott Palmtag (NCSU), Khaldoon Al-Dawood (NCSU), Andrew Godfrey (Veracity Nuclear)
Paper
NEA/OECD TVA Watts Bar Unit 1 Multi-Physics Multi-Cycle Depletion Benchmark with CASMO5 and SIMULATE5
2:10–2:30PM PDT
Emiliya L. Georgieva (Studsvik Scandpower), Tamer Bahadir (Studsvik Scandpower)
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Variability Due to Nuclear Data Applied to the Watts Bar Unit 1 Benchmark with CASMO5/SIMULATE5 Code Sequence
2:30–2:50PM PDT
S. Bonthoux (IRSN), J. Taforeau (IRSN)
Presented by Franck Bernard (IRSN)
First Steps of the ANTARES Validation with TVA Watts Bar Unit 1 Cycle 1 Benchmark
2:50–3:10PM PDT
F. Bernard (IRSN), S. Bonthoux (IRSN), M. Forestier (IRSN), G. Girault (IRSN), A. Sargeni (IRSN), J. Taforeau (IRSN)
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