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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Technical Session
Saturday, April 10, 2021|11:00AM–12:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
David Holler (NCSU)
Alternate Chair:
Ishita Trivedi
Session Organizer:
Edward Chen (NCSU)
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Session Producers:
Mohammed Shutayfi (NCSU)
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Development of Triangle-based Cubic Expansion Nodal Method with Two-Node Approach
Muhammad R. Oktavian (Purdue University), Yunlin Xu (Purdue University)
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Flexible Cross Section Generation in OpenMC with TOGA (Tool for Optimization and Group-structure Analysis)
Miriam A. Kreher (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jack Galloway (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Robert B. Wilkerson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Joshua Richard (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Preliminary Python-Automated Neutronics Analysis for the Reed Research Reactor
Patrick J. Park (Reed College)
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