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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Smarter waste strategies: Helping deliver on the promise of advanced nuclear
At COP28, held in Dubai in 2023, a clear consensus emerged: Nuclear energy must be a cornerstone of the global clean energy transition. With electricity demand projected to soar as we decarbonize not just power but also industry, transport, and heat, the case for new nuclear is compelling. More than 20 countries committed to tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050. In the United States alone, the Department of Energy forecasts that the country’s current nuclear capacity could more than triple, adding 200 GW of new nuclear to the existing 95 GW by mid-century.
Thursday, November 21, 2024|1:00–5:00PM EST
Canaveral 2
Cost: $49
Attila4MC provides MCNP® 6.2 and 6.3 users with a GUI based environment to set up, run, and visualize MCNP unstructured mesh solutions from complex CAD geometries.
In this workshop, the new "real-world" CAD workflow in Attila4MC will be demonstrated on a representative shielding example. This workflow enables users to work directly from dirty CAD assemblies with hundreds or thousands of parts, and with "transport insignificant" part interferences, mostly eliminating the need for time consuming CAD cleanup and simplification. An integral part of this workflow is the new Cottonwood Variance Reduction module, which performs CADIS and FW-CADIS variance reduction on complex models through an automatic arbitrary mesh refinement (AMR) deterministic solver. Cottonwood automatically generates the deterministic computational grid, and MCNP weight window grid definition based on a user supplied target half value layer (HVL).
The new Fornax activation module will also be demonstrated. Fornax provides MCNP users with a GUI driven workflow for shutdown dose rate (R2S method) and inventory calculations.
The second half of this workshop is hands-on, where attendees will set up, run, and visualize a deep penetration shielding model starting from CAD. Attendees wishing to run Attila4MC should bring a Windows 10 or 11 laptop with at least 12 GB of RAM. Attendees wishing to also run MCNP must have MCNP 6.2.0 or 6.3.0 installed. Attendees are invited to bring their own CAD models (Parasolid® or ACIS® formats preferable), as the last half hour will include an optional open workshop allowing users to work through their own models with help from Silver Fir Software instructors.
All attendees will receive a 1-month license of Attila4MC following the workshop. For any questions regarding the workshop, contact support@silverfirsoftware.com.
