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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.
Meeting Spotlight
Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space (NETS 2023)
May 7–11, 2023
Idaho Falls, ID|Snake River Event Center
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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February 2023
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Wanted: Information leading to a neutron source for fusion energy R&D
The Department of Energy’s Office of Science published a notice in the March 27 Federal Register calling for input on technological approaches to a Fusion Prototypic Neutron Source (FPNS) for materials irradiation research under DOE-SC’s Fusion Energy Sciences program, as well as partnership models that could accelerate the construction and delivery of the facility. The request for information (RFI) calls for responses by May 11.
Technical Session
Monday, October 4, 2021|10:40AM–12:20PM EDT
Session Chair:
Kendra Long (LANL)
Session Organizer:
Dmitriy Y. Anistratov (NC State Univ.)
Student Producer:
Johnny Klemes (NC State Univ.)
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Two-Dimensional Spherical-Polar Bilinear Discontinuous Discretization for Atmospheric Transport
10:40–11:05AM EDT
Daniel T. Wakeford (LANL), James S. Warsa (LANL)
Summary
Discontinuous-Galerkin Discretization of the Energy-Dependent Fokker-Planck Operator
11:05–11:30AM EDT
Kyle S. Beling (Univ. of New Mexico), James S. Warsa (LANL), Anil K. Prinja (Univ. of New Mexico), David A. Dixon (LANL)
Discontinuous Galerkin Variable Eddington Factor Methods
11:30–11:55AM EDT
Samuel Olivier (Univ. of California, Berkeley), Terry S. Haut (LLNL), Ben C. Yee (LLNL)
A Finite Volume Method for the Fermi Pencil-Beam Equation
11:55AM–12:20PM EDT
Antonios G. Mylonakis (Chalmers Univ. of Technology), Mohammad Asadzadeh (Chalmers Univ. of Technology)
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