NCSD 2025 in Austin is on the horizon

Details: The theme of this year’s conference is “Many Missions, One Goal: Collaborating for a Safer Tomorrow.” The first technical session will focus on the exploration of that theme through the presentation of papers on collaboration between regulators, contractors, institutions, and beyond.

Another highlight from the planned technical sessions is a special session focused exclusively on the Static Experiment Critical Facility (STACY), a critical assembly in Japan used to analyze nuclear fuel debris, among other applications. Talks will be given by many representatives from the Japan Atomic Energy Agency and Japan’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority.

There will be four workshops held during NCSD 2025. They include a workshop on MCNP6.3 and Whisper-1.1 code applications to criticality safety analysis, an exploration of new updates in thermal scattering law files, a course on how to use Nuclear Engineering Agency software, and the first-ever offering of the Plutonium Chemistry Workshop.

Two tours: Attendees will also have a chance to embark on technical tours of two facilities at the nearby University of Texas– Austin. The first, the Texas Advanced Computing Center, is home to some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, which are used for groundbreaking simulations and research across the nuclear field.

The second, the UT Triga Reactor at the Nuclear Engineering Teaching Lab, is a 1-MWe teaching and research reactor that plays key roles in training the next generation of the nuclear workforce.