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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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DOE signs two more OTAs in Reactor Pilot Program
This week, the Department of Energy has finalized two new other transaction agreements (OTAs) with participating companies in its Reactor Pilot Program, which aims to get one or two fast-tracked reactors on line by July 4 of this year. Those companies are Terrestrial Energy and Oklo.
Technical Session|Computational Methods, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning
Saturday, April 6, 2024|1:35–2:55PM EDT|Engineering Services Building Room 122
Session Chair:
Luiz C. Aldeia Machado (Penn State University)
Alternate Chair:
Alexander S. Hauck (Penn State University)
Session Organizer:
Jonathan B. Balog (Penn State University)
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Machine Learning for Time-Series Prediction of the Cryogenic Moderator System in Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Spallation Neutron Source Facility
1:35–1:55PM EDT
Gavin McDuffee (Tennessee Technological Univ.), William Gurecky (Univ. Texas, Austin), Wesley C. Williams (ORNL), Xingang Zhao (ORNL)
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ML-LIBS: Machine Learning-Based Spectra Predictions of Time-Dependent Lithium Emission Spectroscopy Imaging
1:55–2:15PM EDT
Lauren A. Kohler (NCSU), Jason P. Clifford (NCSU), Nursat Karim (NCSU), Sivanandan S. Harilal (PNNL), Elizabeth Kautz (NCSU), Xu Wu (NCSU)
Parameter Importances from Random Forest Machine Learning for Accident Tolerant Fuel Pool Boiling
2:15–2:35PM EDT
Eliot R. Ciuperca (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Juliana P. Duarte (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Bruno P. Serrao (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
A Preliminary Exploration into Using Mixture Density Networks to Compress Data in Monte Carlo Codes
2:35–2:55PM EDT
Eappen S. Nelluvelil (Univ. Colorado, Boulder), Anna Matsekh (LANL), Arvind Mohan (LANL), Mathew A. Cleveland (LANL), Alex Long (LANL)
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