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EnergySolutions to help explore advanced reactor development in Utah
Utah-based waste management company EnergySolutions announced that it has signed a memorandum of understating with the Intermountain Power Agency and the state of Utah to explore the development of advanced nuclear power generation at the Intermountain Power Project (IPP) site near Delta, Utah.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPSD
Tuesday, June 9, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EDT
Session Chair:
Steven J. Nathan
Alternate Chair:
Irina I. Popova
Session Organizer:
Staff Producer:
Daniel Goldberg (American Nuclear Society)
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Shielding Analyses for the VENUS Instrument Enclosure
I. I. Popova (ORNL), F. X. Gallmeier (ORNL)
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Assessment of Electrostatic Radiation Shielding Efficacy via Void Area Calculation
Luke Stegeman (Kansas State Univ.), Rajarshi Pal Chowdhury (Kansas State Univ.), Matthew L. Lund (Univ. of Utah), Dan J. Fry (NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center), Stojan M. Madzunkov (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Amir A. Bahadori (Kansas State Univ.)
Dose Analysis for a Neutron Source Driven Subcritical Assembly
Cliff H. Ghiglieri (Colorado School of Mines), Jeffrey C. King (Colorado School of Mines)
The US EPA Superfund Radon Vapor Intrusion Screening Level (RVISL) Electronic Calculator
Stuart Walker (US EPA)
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