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The spark of the Super: Teller–Ulam and the birth of the H-bomb—rivalry, credit, and legacy at 75 years
In early 1951, Los Alamos scientists Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam devised a breakthrough that would lead to the hydrogen bomb [1]. Their design gave the United States an initial advantage in the Cold War, though comparable progress was soon achieved independently in the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom.
Technical Session|Sponsored by NCSD
Wednesday, November 20, 2024|8:00–9:45AM EST|Canaveral 2
Session Chair:
Angela Chambers
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Alternate Chair:
Douglas G. Bowen
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Design Evolution of a UO2-BeO Critical Experiment
8:00–8:20AM EST
William M. Cook (Sandia), Elijah Lutz (Sandia), David Ames (Sandia)
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Sum-of-Fractions Method
8:20–8:40AM EST
Travis J. Zipperer (PNNL), Andrew W. Prichard (PNNL, Retired), Travis M. Greene (ORNL), William J. Marshall (ORNL), Alex Lang (ORNL)
The Completion of Surrogate Testing for Low-Temperature TEX and a Look Towards the Future
8:40–9:00AM EST
Eric Aboud (LLNL), Jacob Glesmann (LLNL), Jesse Norris (LLNL), Catherine Percher (LLNL), Nick Killingsworth (LLNL), Paul Yap-Chiongco (LLNL), Venkata Ravindra (National Nuclear Laboratory), Alfie O'Neill (National Nuclear Laboratory), Deborah Hill (National Nuclear Laboratory), Steve Graham (National Nuclear Laboratory)
SCALE Developments for the U.S. Nuclear Criticality Safety Program: Recent Achievements and Outlook
9:00–9:20AM EST
K.B. Bekar (ORNL), J. Brown (ORNL), C. Celik (ORNL), T. Greene (ORNL), S.W.D. Hart (ORNL), W.J. Marshall (ORNL), J.D. McDonnell (ORNL), U. Mertyurek (ORNL), S.E. Skutnik (ORNL), W.A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
IER 555: Status of Godiva-IV Benchmark (HEU-MET-FAST-086) Revision
9:20–9:40AM EST
Jeffrey A. Favorite (LANL), Joetta Goda (LANL)
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