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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|Nuclear Data and Nuclear Data Evaluations
Tuesday, April 29, 2025|1:00–2:40PM MDT|E.P. Ensley B
Session Chair:
Gavin Ridley (Aalo Atomics)
Alternate Chair:
Matthew Lazaric (Univ. New Mexico)
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Machine Learning Applied to the Prediction of (n, 2n) Cross Sections
1:00–1:25PM MDT
L. Morgan (AWE), A. Stott (AWE), S. Sullivan (University of Surrey)
Paper
The Influence of Parent Feeding on Delayed-Neutron Group Parameter Estimation from Weighted Nonlinear Least-Squares Regressions
1:25–1:50PM MDT
Yanuar Ady Setiawan (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), Douglas A. Fynan (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology)
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Predicting (n,p) and (n,𝛼) Cross Sections Using Decision Trees
1:50–2:15PM MDT
Rohan Gaya (Univ. Cambridge), Valeria Raffuzzi (Univ. Cambridge), Eugene Shwageraus (Univ. Cambridge), Lee Morgan (AWE)
Development of a Representative Molten Chloride Fast Reactor Model to Assess the Impact of Nuclear Data
2:15–2:40PM MDT
Rakim Hirji (Georgia Tech), Germina Procop (ORNL), Friederike Bostelmann (ORNL), Rabab Elzohery (ORNL)
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