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Operations & Power
Members focus on the dissemination of knowledge and information in the area of power reactors with particular application to the production of electric power and process heat. The division sponsors meetings on the coverage of applied nuclear science and engineering as related to power plants, non-power reactors, and other nuclear facilities. It encourages and assists with the dissemination of knowledge pertinent to the safe and efficient operation of nuclear facilities through professional staff development, information exchange, and supporting the generation of viable solutions to current issues.
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2021 ANS Winter Meeting and Technology Expo
November 30–December 3, 2021
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Eliminated as a repository site, Germany’s Gorleben salt mine to be closed
The German government has announced that it is closing the Gorleben salt mine in the Wendland region of Lower Saxony, officially removing the site from consideration as a repository for radioactive waste. Gorleben became a target of antinuclear protests after being proposed as a potential repository in the 1970s.
Technical Session
Wednesday, October 6, 2021|7:30–9:10AM (8:30–10:10AM EDT)|Salon D
Session Chair:
Imre Pázsit (Chalmers University of Technology)
Anil Prinja (Univ. of New Mexico)
Session Organizer:
Anil K. Prinja (Univ. of New Mexico)
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Lénárd Pál - His Time, His Professional Life, and Reminiscences of a Collaboration
I. Pázsit (Chalmers Univ. of Technology)
Summary
The Contribution of Erwin Schroedinger to the Calculation of the Extinction Probability and its Comparison with the Work of Lénárd Pál
M.M.R. Williams (Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine)
Pál-Bell Theory: Beyond the Neutron Number Distribution
Anil K. Prinja (Univ. of New Mexico), Patrick F. O'Rourke (LANL)
Towards a More Realistic Analysis of Neutron Clustering
Thomas M. Sutton (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
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