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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Smarter waste strategies: Helping deliver on the promise of advanced nuclear
At COP28, held in Dubai in 2023, a clear consensus emerged: Nuclear energy must be a cornerstone of the global clean energy transition. With electricity demand projected to soar as we decarbonize not just power but also industry, transport, and heat, the case for new nuclear is compelling. More than 20 countries committed to tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050. In the United States alone, the Department of Energy forecasts that the country’s current nuclear capacity could more than triple, adding 200 GW of new nuclear to the existing 95 GW by mid-century.
Technical Session|Panel|Panels
Tuesday, April 23, 2024|1:30–3:15PM PDT|Imperial Ballroom
Session Chair:
Catherine M. Percher
Alternate Chair:
Mark D. DeHart
Session Organizer:
Christopher M. Perfetti
Validation plays a vital role in building trust in the predictive power of models and computational methods. Validation of a code consists of modeling documented real-world experiments and comparing the code-predicted response to the actual, measured response. In this panel session, we will discuss how these experiments are evaluated as benchmarks and used for validation of nuclear data and computational methods. We will also present an overview of four benchmark projects that aim to document different kinds of real-world experiments, with four panelists who chair the projects: Catherine Percher (LLNL), chair of the International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP), Mark DeHart (INL), chair of the International Reactor Physics Experiment Evaluation Project (IRPhEP), Thomas Miller (ORNL), chair of the Shielding Integral Benchmark and Database (SINBAD), and Germina Ilas (ORNL), chair of the Spent Fuel Composition (SFCompo) project. Additionally, Rowdy Davis (UNM), will present on his experience being a benchmark evaluator for ICSBEP, having recently submitted a benchmark on the University of New Mexico research reactor.
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