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Isotopes & Radiation
Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
Standards Program
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Beyond conventional boundaries: Innovative construction technologies pave the way for advanced reactor deployment
In a bid to tackle the primary obstacle in nuclear deployment—construction costs—those in industry and government are moving away from traditional methods and embracing innovative construction technologies.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MCD
Tuesday, June 9, 2020|2:30–4:15PM EDT
Session Chair:
Mathew A. Cleveland
Alternate Chair:
Patrick C. Shriwise
Session Organizer:
Steven P. Hamilton
Staff Producer:
John Fabian (American Nuclear Society)
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Improving Convergence via Removal of Scattering Ratio Threshold in Discrete Diffusion Monte Carlo
Alexis Maldonado (LANL), Mathew A. Cleveland (LANL), Kelly G. Thompson (LANL)
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Analysis of Mixed Cell Treatments for Multimaterial Nonlinear Radiation Diffusion
Pedram Ghassemi (LLNL), Samuel P. Schofield (LLNL)
MPCORE Code for OPR-1000 Transient Multiphysics Simulation with Adaptive Step Size Control
Alexey Cherezov (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology), Deokjung Lee (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology), Hanjoo Kim (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology), Jinsu Park (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology)
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