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PR: American Nuclear Society welcomes Senate confirmation of Ted Garrish as the DOE’s nuclear energy secretary
Washington, D.C. — The American Nuclear Society (ANS) applauds the U.S. Senate's confirmation of Theodore “Ted” Garrish as Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
“On behalf of over 11,000 professionals in the fields of nuclear science and technology, the American Nuclear Society congratulates Mr. Garrish on being confirmed by the Senate to once again lead the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy,” said ANS President H.M. "Hash" Hashemian.
Yukio Sakamoto, Yosuke Iwamoto, Hiroshi Nakashima
Nuclear Technology | Volume 168 | Number 3 | December 2009 | Pages 654-658
Accelerators | Special Issue on the 11th International Conference on Radiation Shielding and the 15th Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division (PART 3) / Rotation Protection | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A9284
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Three accelerator experiments on source term and radiation shielding performed by the staffs of Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) to validate the accuracy of the radiation behavior simulation code PHITS (Particle and Heavy Ion Transport code System) are reviewed. In the measurement of neutron spectra from a thin beryllium target bombarded with [approximately]10-MeV protons, measured peak energies and values of the cross section were the same as those in the Evaluated Nuclear Data File ENDF/B-VII. In the measurements of forward-direction neutron spectra from thick targets bombarded with 140-, 250-, and 350-MeV protons, the calculated spectra from an iron target by the PHITS code agreed well with the measured spectra. In the measurement of neutron spectra from a tungsten target bombarded with [approximately]400-MeV protons, the shape of neutron spectra and its intensity are compared with that in Los Alamos Neutron Science Center/Weapons Neutron Research.