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Radiation Protection & Shielding
The Radiation Protection and Shielding Division is developing and promoting radiation protection and shielding aspects of nuclear science and technology — including interaction of nuclear radiation with materials and biological systems, instruments and techniques for the measurement of nuclear radiation fields, and radiation shield design and evaluation.
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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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“Robust” interest in Summer’s partially constructed reactors
Santee Cooper is satisfied with the response generated by its initial request for proposals to buy what remains of the Summer-2 and -3 nuclear power plant project in South Carolina. The RFP was issued in January and the application window closed May 5.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Jasmine D
Session Chair:
Donny Hartanto (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni (UC Berkeley)
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Consideration of Design Based Uncertainties in TREAT Reactor Control Mechanisms During Steady-State Operation
3:15–3:35PM PDT
Ishita Trivedi (INL), Sebastian Schunert (INL), Mark DeHart (INL)
Presented by Abdalla Abou Jaoude (INL)
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Benchmark Calculations for Turkey Point Unit 3 and Surry Unit 1 Using the SCALE/Polaris-PARCS Procedure
3:35–3:55PM PDT
Byoung-kyu Jeon (ORNL), Kang Seog Kim (ORNL), Andrew M. Ward (Univ. Michigan), Ugur Mertyurek (ORNL), Matthew A. Jessee (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
Sensitivity and Validation Studies of Plutonium-238 Production with Shift and ORIGEN
3:55–4:15PM PDT
D. Chandler (ORNL), D. Hartanto (ORNL), J.W. Bae (ORNL), K.M. Burg (ORNL), Y.E. Robert (ORNL)
Preliminary Neutronics Analysis of Mixed HEU-LEU Transition Cores for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Reactor
4:15–4:35PM PDT
Kyle Anderson (ANL), Alberto Talamo (ANL), Tyler Sumner (ANL), Sero Yang (ANL), Walid Mohamed (ANL), Lin-wen Hu (MIT), Erik Wilson (ANL)
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