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Fusion Energy
This division promotes the development and timely introduction of fusion energy as a sustainable energy source with favorable economic, environmental, and safety attributes. The division cooperates with other organizations on common issues of multidisciplinary fusion science and technology, conducts professional meetings, and disseminates technical information in support of these goals. Members focus on the assessment and resolution of critical developmental issues for practical fusion energy applications.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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Sam Altman steps down as Oklo board chair
Advanced nuclear company Oklo Inc. has new leadership for its board of directors as billionaire Sam Altman is stepping down from the position he has held since 2015. The move is meant to open new partnership opportunities with OpenAI, where Altman is CEO, and other artificial intelligence companies.
Advances in Nuclear Nonproliferation Technology and Policy Conference (ANTPC 2023)
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 15, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EST|Lincoln West
Session Chair:
Patrick Moosir (Sandia)
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Bridging the Fidelity Gap in System-Scale Nuclear Fuel Cycle Simulations for Realistic State-Level Nuclear Material Accounting
10:00–10:20AM EST
Kathryn A. Mummah (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Paper
Monte Carlo Based Sample Optimization for Microcalorimeter Decay Energy Spectroscopy
10:20–10:40AM EST
Sophie Weidenbenner (Oregon State), Camille Palmer (Oregon State), Mark Croce (LANL), Katrina E. Koehler (LANL), Daniel McNeel (LANL), Timothy Ockrin (LANL), Katherine Schreiber (LANL), Rico Schoenemann (LANL), Matthew Carpenter (LANL), Ryan Fitzgerald (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Anomaly Detection in Gamma Source Search Spectra with Hopfield Neural Network on Quantum Computer Simulator
10:40–11:00AM EST
Luis Valdez (Univ. Texas, San Antonio), Miltos Alamaniotis (Univ. Texas, San Antonio), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
Optimizing a Neutron Multiplicity Counter Using Design of Experiments Methods
11:00–11:20AM EST
Rachel C. Connick (LANL), Nikolas D. Economy (LANL), John A. Corder (TAMU), Sarah E. Sarnoski (LANL), Rollin E. Lakis (LANL)
Development of Reactor Physics Models for Generating a Surrogate Model for the ISU AGN-201 Digital
11:20–11:40AM EST
Quinton Williams (Oregon State), Ryan Stewart (INL), Chad Pope (Idaho State), Camille Palmer (Oregon State), Todd Palmer (Oregon State), Ashley Shields (INL), John Darrington (INL), Mark Schanfein (INL), Gustavo Reyes (INL), Christopher Ritter (INL)
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