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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|Sponsored by Fundamental Irradiation Damage
Monday, December 11, 2023|9:30–11:30AM CST|Galerie 6
Session Chair:
Khalid Hattar
Alternate Chair:
Flyura Djurabekova (Univ. Helsinki)
Track Organizers:
Steve Zinkle (University of Tennessee & Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Mitra Taheri (Johns Hopkins University)
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Investigating the Low-Energy Recoil Events in GaN
9:30–9:50AM CST
A.S. Hauck (Penn State), B.R. Tuttle (Penn State Behrend), M. Jin (Penn State)
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Investigation of Ion Irradiation Effects on Mineral Analogues of Concrete Aggregates
9:50–10:10AM CST
Zehui Qi (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Steven John Zinkle (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Yann Le Pape (ORNL), Elena Tajuelo Rodriguez (ORNL), Xin Chen (Univ. California, Los Angeles), Arnaud Bouissonnié (Univ. California, Los Angeles), Gaurav Sant (Univ. California, Los Angeles)
Determination of the Radiation Induced Athermal Diffusivity in Uranium Mononitride from an Integrated Approach
10:10–10:30AM CST
A. Schneider (LANL), M. Cooper (LANL), J. Rizk (LANL), T. Matthews (LANL), M. Kosmidou (LANL), D. Andersson (LANL)
Cluster Dynamics Simulations of the Full Xenon-Vacancy-Interstitial Phase-Space in Irradiated UO2
10:30–10:50AM CST
S. Blondel (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), C. Matthews (LANL), M. Cooper (LANL), B. Wirth (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), D. Andersson (LANL)
Self-Irradiation Effects During Alternative Cooling and Heating of δ-phase 239Pu-Ga Alloys
10:50–11:10AM CST
Alice I. Smith (LANL), F.J. Freibert (LANL), S.C. Vogel (LANL), J. Zhang (LANL), J.E. Siewenie (LANL), S. Richmond (LANL), M. Ramos (LANL)
Modeling Radiolysis Effects in FLiNaK and FLiBe Molten Fluoride Salt
11:10–11:30AM CST
A. Peterkin (MIT), H. Caralp (Brown Univ.), W. Zhou (MIT), M. Short (MIT)
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