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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.
M. A. Sweeney, J. A. Halbleib, K. M. Tolk
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 656-663
Inertial Confinement Fusion Driver Technology | Proceedings of the Seveth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Reno, Nevada, June 15–19, 1986) | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24817
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The Sandia National Laboratories Particle Beam Fusion Accelerator PBFA II is expected to produce significant bremsstrahlung on every shot during 30 MV operation. Shielding specific electronic components from the intense bremsstrahlung environment is an important consideration. We describe new 3-D Monte Carlo electron-photon transport simulations of the PBFA-II facility that include a more efficient version of the next-event-estimator calculation and final design information for accelerator components within the vacuum chamber. The improved bremsstrahlung shielding analysis is compared with pin diode and thermoluminescent dosimetry measurements obtained during the first four months of accelerator testing.