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Improving task performance, system reliability, system and personnel safety, efficiency, and effectiveness are the division's main objectives. Its major areas of interest include task design, procedures, training, instrument and control layout and placement, stress control, anthropometrics, psychological input, and motivation.
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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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ANS webinar tackles nuclear waste
A recent American Nuclear Society webinar tackled misconceptions about nuclear waste. Christopher Perfetti, an associate professor of nuclear engineering at the University of New Mexico, presented “The How, Why, and Where of Nuclear Waste,” the latest online event in ANS’s Educator Training offerings.
Technical Session
Monday, September 26, 2022|10:20AM–12:00PM PDT|Seaport
Session Chair:
Davide Bortot (Politecnico di Milano)
Alternate Chair:
Seiki Ohnishi (National Maritime Research Institute Japan)
Session Organizer:
Thomas M. Miller (ORNL)
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Preliminary Helium-3 Detector Response Capabilities in DRiFT
10:20–10:45AM PDT
M.T. Andrews (LANL), A.C. Madden (LANL), D.R. Mayo (LANL), S. Woldegiorgis (LANL)
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Avalanche-Confinement TEPCs Between Micro and Nanodosimetry
10:45–11:10AM PDT
Davide Bortot (Politecnico di Milano), Davide Mazzucconi (Politecnico di Milano), Andrea Pola (Politecnico di Milano), Stefano Agosteo (Politecnico di Milano), Valeria Conte (INFN - Legnaro National Laboratories)
A New Operational Methodology for the Prediction of Total Beta-Gamma Activity Values for LL/IL Waste Produced at CERN
11:10–11:35AM PDT
Luca Bruno (CERN), Gerald Dumont (CERN), Patrycja Dyrcz (CERN), Matteo Magistris (CERN), Nabil Menaa (CERN), Maeva Rimlinger (CERN), Chris Theis (CERN)
Compilation of Nuclear Data Experiments for Radiation Characterisation
11:35AM–12:00PM PDT
J.-Ch. Sublet (IAEA), Ian Gauld (ORNL), Mark R. Gilbert (UKAEA), Albert C. Kahler (Kahler Nuclear Data Services)
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