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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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The predawn darkness on a cool Florida night was shattered by the ignition of nine Merlin engines on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The thrust of the engines shook the ground miles away. From a distance, the rocket appeared to slowly rise above the horizon. For the cargo onboard, the launch was anything but gentle, as the ignition of liquid oxygen generated more than 1.5 million pounds of force. After the rocket had been out of sight for several minutes, the booster dramatically returned to Earth with several sonic booms in a captivating show of engineering designed to make space travel less expensive and more sustainable.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Tuesday, November 15, 2022|10:00–11:45AM MST|Sonoran 7
Session Chair:
Zeyun Wu (VCU)
Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni (UC Berkeley)
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Verification of Diffusion Solver with Equivalent Transport Factors on PWR Assembly Models
10:00–10:20AM MST
Muhammad Rizki Oktavian (Purdue), Oscar Lastres (Purdue), Yunlin Xu (Purdue)
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Discrete Element Method Investigation of Reflector Dimples for a General Pebble Bed Reactor Design
10:20–10:40AM MST
David Reger (Penn State), Paolo Balestra (INL), Ryan Stewart (INL), Gerhard Strydom (INL), Elia Merzari (Penn State)
Application of Two-Node Discontinuity Factor for Improving Accuracy of Nodal Calculation
10:40–11:00AM MST
HwanYeal Yu (KEPCO Nuclear Fuel), Joo-Ill Yoon (KEPCO Nuclear Fuel)
Real Variance Estimation in the iDTMC-Based Depletion Analysis Using Correlated Sampling
11:00–11:20AM MST
Inyup Kim (KAIST), Inhyung Kim (Univ. California, Berkeley), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
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