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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Nano to begin drilling next week in Illinois
It’s been a good month for Nano Nuclear in the state of Illinois. On October 7, the Office of Governor J.B. Pritzker announced that the company would be awarded $6.8 million from the Reimagining Energy and Vehicles in Illinois Act to help fund the development of its new regional research and development facility in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook.
Technical Session
Wednesday, July 24, 2024|10:15AM–12:05PM CDT|Madison Ballroom
Session Chair:
Kate Borowiec (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Ethan Peterson (Massachussets Institute of Technology)
Session Organizer:
Paul P. Wilson
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Scheme for Calculating the Complete Stochastic Uncertainty in Nuclear Analysis Based on 2 Monte Carlo Code Systems
10:15–10:40AM CDT
J. Alguacil (Univ. Nacional de Educacion a Distancia), I. Lopez (Univ. Nacional de Educacion a Distancia), J.P. Catalan (Univ. Nacional de Educacion a Distancia), P. Sauvan (Univ. Nacional de Educacion a Distancia), J. Sanz (Univ. Nacional de Educacion a Distancia)
Paper
Local Uncertainty and Unstructured Mesh Element Volume in MCNP
10:40–11:05AM CDT
John Tortorello (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Andrea A. Saltos (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Ryanne Kennedy (Commonwealth Fusion Systems)
Uncertainty Analysis of OpenMC Shutdown Dose Rates Calculation
11:05–11:25AM CDT
Bamidele Ebiwonjumi (MIT), Ethan Peterson (MIT)
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Optimization of SPARC Vacuum Spectroscopy Shielding Design Using Cottonwood Adjoints
11:25–11:45AM CDT
Ian R. Miner (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Inwoo Song (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Andrea Saltos (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Ryanne Kennedy (Commonwealth Fusion Systems)
Machine Learning Uncertainty Quantification for Fusion Plasma Controllers
11:45AM–12:05PM CDT
Cyd Cowley (digiLab Solutions), Andy Corbett (digiLab Solutions), Mikkel Lykkegaard (digiLab Solutions), Adam Parrott (Culham Centre for Fusion Energy)
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