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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Shifting the paradigm of supply chain
Chad Wolf
When I began my nuclear career, I was coached up in the nuclear energy culture of the day to “run silent, run deep,” a mindset rooted in the U.S. Navy’s submarine philosophy. That was the norm—until Fukushima.
The nuclear renaissance that many had envisioned hit a wall. The focus shifted from expansion to survival. Many utility communications efforts pivoted from silence to broadcast, showcasing nuclear energy’s elegance and reliability. Nevertheless, despite being clean baseload 24/7 power that delivered a 90 percent capacity factor or higher, nuclear energy was painted as risky and expensive (alongside energy policies and incentives that favored renewables).
Economics became a driving force threatening to shutter nuclear power. The Delivering the Nuclear Promise initiative launched in 2015 challenged the industry to sustain high performance yet cut costs by up to 30 percent.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Friday, December 3, 2021|10:00–11:45AM EST |Columbia 11
Session Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov
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Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni
Student Assistant:
Matthew Hageman
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Neutron Spectra and Correlation Coefficient Convergence When Designing a Microreactor Experiment with MCNP®/Whisper
10:05–10:25AM EST
Alexis Maldonado (LANL), Christopher M. Perfetti (Univ. of New Mexico), Holly R. Trellue (LANL), Mikaela e. Blood (LANL)
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Testing of an Optical Fiber Based Gamma Thermometer in the Ohio State University Research Reactor
10:25–10:45AM EST
Anthony Birri (Ohio State Univ.), Joshua Jones (Ohio State Univ.), Thomas E. Blue (Ohio State Univ.)
The Current Status of the In-Core Testing Program for an Optical Fiber Based Gamma Thermometer at the Texas A&M University Research Reactor
10:45–11:05AM EST
J. Tyler Gates (Texas A&M Univ.), Noah Morton (Texas A&M Univ.), Pavel V. Tsvetkov (Texas A&M Univ.)
ACCRUE - An Integral Similarity Index in Support of Neutronic Model Validation
11:05–11:25AM EST
Jeongwon Seo (Purdue Univ.), Hany Abdel-Khalik (Purdue Univ.), Aaron S. Epiney (INL)
Antineutrino-Based Machine Learning Analysis for Small Reactor Composition Verification
11:25–11:45AM EST
Matthew Dunbrack (Georgia Institute of Technology), Christopher Stewart (Univ. of California, Berkeley), Anna Erickson (Georgia Institute of Technology)
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