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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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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2023)
February 6–9, 2023
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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Fusion energy radwaste management considerations
The question of what to do with the radioactive waste has been raised frequently for both fission and fusion. In the 1970s, fusion adopted the land-based disposal option, primarily based on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s decision to regulate all radioactive wastes as only a disposal issue, following the fission guidelines. In the early 2000s, members of the Advanced Research Innovation and Evaluation Study (ARIES) national team became increasingly aware of the high amount of mildly radioactive materials that 1-GWe fusion power plants will generate, compared with the current line of fission reactors. The main concern is that such a sizable inventory of mostly tritiated radioactive materials would tend to rapidly fill U.S. repositories—a serious issue that was overlooked in early fusion studies1 that could influence the public acceptability of fusion energy and will certainly become more significant in the immediate future if left unaddressed, as fusion moves toward commercialization.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE)
Technical Session
Wednesday, June 15, 2022|8:00–9:45AM PDT|Huntington A
Session Chair:
Walter Guttenfelder (PPPL)
Alternate Chair:
Leigh Winfrey
Session Organizer:
Paul W. Humrickhouse (ORNL)
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W7-X and the Stellarator Path to Fusion
Thomas S. Pedersen (Max Planck Inst. for Plasma Physics)
Summary
Final Design of the Material Plasma Exposure eXperiment
Juergen Rapp (ORNL), Arnold Lumsdaine (ORNL), Adam M. Aaron (ORNL), Theodore M. Biewer (ORNL), Tim Bigelow (ORNL), Boyd Ted (ORNL), John Caughman (ORNL), Douglas Curry (ORNL), Robert C. Duckworth (ORNL), Richard Goulding (ORNL), Michael Kaufman (ORNL), Cornwall Lau (ORNL)
From 25 Years of Fusion at Z Onward to the Next Generation of Pulsed Power
Daniel B. Sinars (Sandia)
Design of the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) Tritium Fuel Cycle
Mohamad Abdallah (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)), Iryna Bennett (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA))
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