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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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Don’t get boxed in: Entergy CNO Kimberly Cook-Nelson shares her journey
Kimberly Cook-Nelson
For Kimberly Cook-Nelson, the path to the nuclear industry started with a couple of refrigerator boxes and cellophane paper. Her sixth-grade science project was inspired by her father, who worked at Seabrook power station in New Hampshire as a nuclear operator.
“I had two big refrigerator boxes I taped together. I cut the ‘primary operating system’ and the ‘secondary system’ out of them. Then I used different colored cellophane paper to show the pressurized water system versus the steam versus the cold cooling water,” Cook-Nelson said. “My dad got me those little replica pellets that I could pass out to people as they were going by at my science fair.”
Technical Session|Sponsored by IRD
Tuesday, June 9, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EDT
Session Chair:
James Bowen (PNNL)
Alternate Chair:
Igor Jovanovic (Univ. of Michigan)
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Staff Producer:
Paul LaTour (American Nuclear Society)
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Betavoltaic Nuclear Microbattery Based on Graphene/Si Schottky Junction
Xiaoyu Wang (Univ. of Science and Technology of China), Weiping Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Jiachen Zhang (Univ. of Science and Technology of China), Yuncheng Han (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Taosheng Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Chunjing Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
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Correlation of Absolute 238U Bioavailability (238U-ABA) and 238U Bioaccessibility Fraction (238U-BAF) Using IAEA-312 Standard Reference Soil
Nur Shahidah Abdul Rashid (Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology), Wooyong Um (Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology), Khoo Kok Siong (The Nat'l Univ. of Malaysia), Nur Syamimi Diyana Rodzi (The Nat'l Univ. of Malaysia)
Neutronics Analysis for Designing a Low Activation Heated Test Cell
Michael Buratynski (Penn State Univ.), William J. Walters (Penn State Univ.)
Predicting Background Count Rate of a Mobile Detector using an Optimal Linear Ensemble of Learning Kernel Machines
Miltiadis Alamaniotis (Univ. of Texas, San Antonio)
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