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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Nuclear fuel cycle reimagined: Powering the next frontiers from nuclear waste
In the fall of 2023, a small Zeno Power team accomplished a major feat: they demonstrated the first strontium-90 heat source in decades—and the first-ever by a commercial company.
Zeno Power worked with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to fabricate and validate this Z1 heat source design at the lab’s Radiochemical Processing Laboratory. The Z1 demonstration heralded renewed interest in developing radioisotope power system (RPS) technology. In early 2025, the heat source was disassembled, and the Sr-90 was returned to the U.S. Department of Energy for continued use.
Panel and Technical Session|Computational Methods, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning
Friday, April 14, 2023|1:35–2:55PM EDT|Student Union 362A
Session Chair:
Noah Walton (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Alternate Chair:
Katy Worrell (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Session Organizer:
Lance M. Drouet (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
This session is sponsored by the ANS Mathematics & Computation Division.
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pyMAISE: A Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Benchmarking Software for Nuclear Reactor Applications
1:35–1:55PM EDT
Patrick A. Myers (Univ. Michigan), Connor C. Craig (Univ. Michigan), Veda G. Joynt (Univ. Michigan), Majdi I. Radaideh (Univ. Michigan)
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A Comparison of Numerical Methods on the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation
1:55–2:15PM EDT
Galen A. Selligman (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
X-ray Fluorescence Modeling Using Monte Carlo Methods
2:15–2:35PM EDT
James T. Cahill (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Caleb T. King (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Tristan O. Norrgard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Carlos E. Castano (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Reza Mohammadi (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Jessika V. Rojas (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Improvements to the TACOCAT Single Channel Analysis Solver: Integrated Testing and Modular Flux Profiles and Geometries
2:35–2:55PM EDT
Trevor Franklin (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Sierra Tutwiler (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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