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The Radiation Protection and Shielding Division is developing and promoting radiation protection and shielding aspects of nuclear science and technology — including interaction of nuclear radiation with materials and biological systems, instruments and techniques for the measurement of nuclear radiation fields, and radiation shield design and evaluation.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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Advanced nuclear company Oklo Inc. has new leadership for its board of directors as billionaire Sam Altman is stepping down from the position he has held since 2015. The move is meant to open new partnership opportunities with OpenAI, where Altman is CEO, and other artificial intelligence companies.
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fundamental Irradiation Damage
Thursday, December 14, 2023|1:00–2:40PM CST|Galerie 6
Session Chair:
Yongfeng Zhang (University of Wisconsin- Madison)
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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Disposition and Dissipation of Ion Beam Energy in Complex Materials
1:00–1:40PM CST
Y. Zhang (INL), A.R. Khanolkar (INL), Z. Hua (INL), K. Gofryk (INL), K.K. Bawane (INL), B. Kombaiah (INL), W.J. Weber (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), E. Zarkadoula (ORNL), M. Khafizov (Ohio State), D.H. Hurley (INL)
Paper
Defect Evolution in Multi-Principal Chemically Disordered Alloys from Multiscale Simulations
1:40–2:00PM CST
Shijun Zhao (City Univ. Hong Kong)
Fundamental Properties and Evolution of Point Defects in Concentrated Alloys
2:00–2:20PM CST
Yongfeng Zhang (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Anus Manzoor (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Peng Wei (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Role of Electronic Energy Dissipation on Radiation Damage Production/Evolution in SiC
2:20–2:40PM CST
W.J. Weber (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), L. Nuckols (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Y. Zhang (INL)
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