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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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DNFSB’s Summers ends board tenure, extending agency’s loss of quorum
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The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, the independent agency responsible for ensuring that Department of Energy facilities are protective of public health and safety, announced that the board’s acting chairman, Thomas Summers, has concluded his service with the agency, having completed his second term as a board member on October 18.
Summers’ departure leaves Patricia Lee, who joined the DNFSB after being confirmed by the Senate in July 2024, as the board’s only remaining member and acting chair. Lee’s DNFSB board term ends in October 2027.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Friday, December 3, 2021|10:00–11:45AM EST |Columbia 11
Session Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Session Organizer:
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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