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Oklo’s Isotope Test Reactor achieves criticality
Oklo’s Groves Isotope Test Reactor became the fifth Department of Energy–authorized reactor to achieve criticality under the agency’s authorization process, it was announced earlier today.
Criticality was reached at 9:19 p.m. (EDT) on Wednesday at the company’s Groves facility in Lockhart, Texas, according to the DOE.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Wednesday, December 1, 2021|4:20–5:45PM EST |Columbia 4
Session Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni
Session Organizer:
Student Assistant:
Tyler Mark
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Development of a New Serpent Capability: Superimposed Triangular Mesh Tally
4:25–4:45PM EST
Kyle M. Ramey (Georgia Institute of Technology), Bojan Petrovic (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Paper
Dimension-Reduced Nuclear Data Adjustment Method Based on the Bayesian Monte-Carlo Method
4:45–5:05PM EST
Yuhei Fukui (Nagoya Univ.), Tomohiro Endo (Nagoya Univ.), Akio Yamamoto (Nagoya Univ.)
Application of Regionwise Even-Parity Discontinuity Factor to the Multigroup Analog Monte-Carlo Method
5:05–5:25PM EST
Yoshiki Oshima (Nagoya Univ.), Tomohiro Endo (Nagoya Univ.), Akio Yamamoto (Nagoya Univ.), Naoto Aizawa (Tohoku Univ.)
Development of Pseudo Fission Product Generation Algorithm for Nuclear Fuel Burnup Calculations
5:25–5:45PM EST
Kento Yanagihara (Hokkaido Univ.), Go Chiba (Hokkaido Univ.)