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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
Workshop
Thursday, April 13, 2023|8:30–11:30AM EDT|Hiwassee
This event is presented by the IAEA.
Hosted by MIT and Argonne National Laboratory
A central problem in nuclear engineering is the simulation of the transit of neutron and photon radiation through devices. Several programs have been written over the past few decades to solve this problem in a generalized fashion via the Monte Carlo method, but only one is not centralized and allows anyone to hack the code and distribute it to others: OpenMC.
For this reason, OpenMC is excellent for students. We'll give an overview of getting OpenMC running on your computer, creating input to the program, and analyzing the results. Particularly, we'll look at a reactor criticality problem and a photon shielding problem, and how OpenMC's python interface enables streamlined analysis compared to older Monte Carlo codes.
Location: Hiwassee
Cost: $0
Attendees: 40
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