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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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The RAIN scale: A good intention that falls short
Radiation protection specialists agree that clear communication of radiation risks remains a vexing challenge that cannot be solved solely by finding new ways to convey technical information.
Earlier this year, an article in Nuclear News described a new radiation risk communication tool, known as the Radiation Index, or, RAIN (“Let it RAIN: A new approach to radiation communication,” NN, Jan. 2025, p. 36). The authors of the article created the RAIN scale to improve radiation risk communication to the general public who are not well-versed in important aspects of radiation exposures, including radiation dose quantities, units, and values; associated health consequences; and the benefits derived from radiation exposures.
Technical Session|Deterministic Transport Methods and Applications
Wednesday, April 30, 2025|8:00–9:40AM MDT|Lawrence A
Session Chair:
Ben Yee (LLNL)
Alternate Chair:
Joe Zerr (LANL)
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Heuristic-Based Adaptive Mesh Refinement Applied to Ray Effect Mitigation Methods
8:00–8:25AM MDT
Kevin C. Sawatzky (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), April J. Novak (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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Robust Positive and Monotone Schemes on Nonorthogonal Quadratures for Highly Anisotropic Scattering
8:25–8:50AM MDT
Charles Bienvenue (Polytechnique Montréal), Ahmed Naceur (Polytechnique Montréal), Jean-François Carrier (Université de Montréal), Alain Hébert (Polytechnique Montréal)
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Assessing AI-Enhanced Single-Sweep Approximations for Transport Problems with Forward-Peaked Scattering in Slab Geometry
8:50–9:15AM MDT
Japan K. Patel (Ohio State), Matthew C. Schmidt (Washington Univ. St. Louis), Anthony Magliari (Varian Medical Systems), Todd A. Wareing (Varian Medical Systems)
Sweep-Based Uncollided-Flux Treatment On Unstructured Grids
9:15–9:40AM MDT
Connor Woodsford (TAMU), Jean C. Ragusa (TAMU), Jim E. Morel (TAMU)
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