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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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NRC nominee Nieh commits to independent safety mission
During a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing today, Ho Nieh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as a commissioner at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, was urged to maintain the agency’s independence regardless of political pressure from the Trump administration.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MCD
Monday, November 18, 2024|3:15–5:00PM EST|Biscayne 3
Session Chair:
Matthew Jessee (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Sebastian Schunert
Session Organizer:
Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
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Resolving Temperature Feedback Anomalies in Monte Carlo Neutron Transport Codes
3:15–3:35PM EST
William Fritsch (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Gabriel Lentchner (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Noah Walton (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Robert Crowder (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Ethan Wever (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Ondrej Chvala (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Kevin Clarno (Univ. Texas, Austin), Vlad Sobes (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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Variance Reduction and Population Control for Time-Dependent Neutron Transport
3:35–3:55PM EST
Jordan Northrop (Oregon State), Ilham Variansyah (Oregon State), Todd Palmer (Oregon State), Camille J. Palmer (Oregon State)
Criticality Calculations with Negative Angular Distributions in Monte Carlo Simulations
3:55–4:15PM EST
Parth Singh (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Hunter Belanger (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Hyperreduction for Neutron Transport
4:15–4:35PM EST
Quincy Huhn (TAMU), Suparno Bhattcharyya (TAMU), Jean Ragusa (TAMU)
Bell Function-Based Analytic Two-Region Slowing Down Method for Double Heterogeneous Problem
4:35–4:55PM EST
Hansol Park (ANL), Yeon Sang Jung (ANL), Changho Lee (ANL)
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