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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|Monte Carlo Methods and Applications
Tuesday, April 29, 2025|1:00–2:40PM MDT|Lawrence B
Session Chair:
Valeria Raffuzzi (Univ. Cambridge)
Alternate Chair:
Paul Cosgrove (Univ. Cambridge)
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Polygonal Functional Expansion Tallies Using Transformed Zernike Polynomials
1:00–1:25PM MDT
Joseph F. Specht IV (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), April J. Novak (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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Using Moment-Based Functional-Expansion Tallies to Construct the Linear Discontinuous Finite-Element Flux in Tetrahedral-Mesh Monte Carlo Simulations
1:25–1:50PM MDT
Pablo A. Vaquer (LANL), Michael E. Rising (LANL), Joel A. Kulesza (LANL), Colin A. Weaver (LANL), Simon R. Bolding (LANL)
Working with Bézier Curves as Nonorthogonal Bases for Functional Expansion Tallies
1:50–2:15PM MDT
Micah D. Gale (INL), Patrick Shriwise (ANL), Paul Wilson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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Does Inherent Randomness in Monte Carlo Transport Calculations Mitigate the Effect of Poor Random Number Generators?
2:15–2:40PM MDT
Gibson D. Prall (Y-12 National Security), Christopher M. Perfetti (Univ. New Mexico)
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