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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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The current status of heat pipe R&D
Idaho National Laboratory under the Department of Energy–sponsored Microreactor Program recently conducted a comprehensive phenomena identification and ranking table (PIRT) exercise aimed at advancing heat pipe technology for microreactor applications.
Technical Session|Nuclear Criticality Safety
Friday, April 4, 2025|9:00–10:20AM MDT|Mirage/Thunderbird
Session Chair:
Matthew J. Lazaric
Alternate Chair:
Yuliia Trujillo
Session Organizer:
Ashley Machado
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LLNL Criticality Safety Handbook Project
9:00–9:20AM MDT
David A. Cerny (Univ. California, Berkeley), Alan Yamanaka (LLNL)
Paper
Simulated Pulsed Neutron Experiments of the Inherently Safe Subcritical Assembly
9:20–9:40AM MDT
Alessandro Ingegno (Univ. California, Berkeley), Daniel J. Siefman (Univ. California, Berkeley), William J. Zywiec (LLNL)
Explicit Modeling of B4C in Neutron Absorber Plates
9:40–10:00AM MDT
Eirena M. Klemes (NCSU)
Real-Time Neutron Source Localization Using the NoMAD Detector and Random Forest Regression
10:00–10:20AM MDT
Natalie L. Cannon (Georgia Tech), Nicholas W. Thompson (LANL), Jesson D. Hutchinson (LANL), Steven R. Biegalski (Georgia Tech), Anna S. Erickson (Georgia Tech), Mark Smith-Nelson (LANL)
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