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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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OSTP memo guides space nuclear plan
A White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) memorandum released on Tuesday guides NASA, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Defense on their roles in deploying near-term space nuclear power.
This follows a series of NASA announcements last month—driven by the executive order “Ensuring American Space Superiority,” issued by Trump in December—including an ambitious timeline for establishing a moon base, which would rely on fission surface power (FSP) to survive the long lunar night at the moon’s south pole, and plans for a nuclear electric propulsion (NEP) rocket to be launched in 2028.
Technical Session|Methods
Monday, April 22, 2024|10:15AM–12:00PM PDT|Franciscan C
Session Chair:
Tatsuya Fujita (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Alternate Chair:
Thibault Sauzedde (CEA)
Session Organizer:
Go Chiba (Hokkaido University)
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A Comparison of the Modal Expansion Method and Exact-to-Precision Generalized Perturbation Theory Capabilities in Reactor Physics
10:15–10:35AM PDT
T. Sauzedde (CEA), P. Archier (CEA), F. Nguyen (CEA)
Paper
Adjoint-Based Perturbation Theory for Heat Conduction and Dynamics Coupled Multiphysics Simulations of Nuclear Reactor Transients
10:35–10:55AM PDT
Alexis Maldonado (LANL), Christopher M. Perfetti (Univ. New Mexico)
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Development of an Adjoint Approach for Calculating Sensitivities of Effective Kinetic Parameters in Continuous-Energy Monte Carlo Code RMC
10:55–11:15AM PDT
S. Jiang (Tsinghua Univ.), K. Wang (Tsinghua Univ.), P. Shen (Tsinghua Univ.)
Bayesian Inverse Problem and Uncertainty Quantification in the Joint Analysis of Neutron and Gamma Corrrelations
11:15–11:35AM PDT
Paul Lartaud (CEA), Philippe Humbert (CEA), Josselin Garnier (Institut Polytechnique de Paris)
Comparison of Bayesian Model Calibration Techniques for Future Application to Fuel Performance Behavior Models
11:35–11:55AM PDT
S. Maccario (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), A. Scolaro (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), A. Vasiliev (Paul Scherrer Institute), M. Hursin (Paul Scherrer Institute)
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