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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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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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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Sam Altman steps down as Oklo board chair
Advanced nuclear company Oklo Inc. has new leadership for its board of directors as billionaire Sam Altman is stepping down from the position he has held since 2015. The move is meant to open new partnership opportunities with OpenAI, where Altman is CEO, and other artificial intelligence companies.
Technical Session
Tuesday, October 5, 2021|10:40AM–12:20PM EDT
Session Chair:
Jean Ragusa (Texas A&M Univ.)
Session Organizer:
Dmitriy Y. Anistratov (NC State Univ.)
Student Producer:
Khaldoon Al-Dawood (NC State Univ.)
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Unifying the Finite Element and Nodal Expansion Methods Under the Weighted Residuals Framework
10:40–11:05AM EDT
Matt Kabelitz (Univ. of Michigan), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. of Michigan)
Paper
Spatial Discretization Error Estimators on Three Realistic Geometry Case Studies
11:05–11:30AM EDT
Nathan H. Hart (LANL), Yousry Y. Azmy (NC State Univ.)
Two-Dimensional Source Estimation Problems Using an ADO-Nodal Solution to the Adjoint Transport Equation
11:30–11:55AM EDT
C.B. Pazinatto (Instituto Federal de Educacao), L. B. Barichello (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)
Extending Gout's Wachspress Finite Elements on Regular Hexagons to Higher Orders
11:55AM–12:20PM EDT
David Labeurthre (CEA), Ansar Calloo (CEA), Romain Le Tellier (CEA)
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