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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.
2025 International Conference on Accelerator Applications (AccApp'25)
Technical Session
Tuesday, November 11, 2025|1:00–2:45PM EST|Jefferson East
Session Chair:
Bruce Carlsten
Alternate Chair:
Steve Russell
Session Organizer:
Yongqiang Wang
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A Workflow for Combining Multiple MCNP Models and Debugging Geometries using Geomwriter and FLAIR
1:00–1:25PM EST
Muhammad R. Altahhan (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)), Kyle Grammer (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)), W. Lu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Franz X. Gallmeier (ORNL)
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McDakDriver - A McStas and Dakota Framework for Neutrons Instruments Design Optimization
1:25–1:50PM EST
Muhammad R. Altahhan (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)), Thomas Huegle (ORNL), Erik B. Iverson (Spallation Neutron Source), F. X. Gallmeier (ORNL)
Advancing Radiological Assessments with the Mesh-Enabled Fluence Weighting Tool
1:50–2:15PM EST
Bartosz Idzior (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Davide Bozzato (CERN), Robert Froeschl (CERN)
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