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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 Fuels and Actinide Materials
Thursday, December 14, 2023|10:00–11:40AM CST|Galerie 3
Session Chair:
Jian Gan (INL)
Track Organizers:
Assel Aitkaliyeva (Univ. Florida)
Michael Tonks (Univ. Florida)
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High-Resolution TEM Characterization of Neutron-Irradiated U-10Mo Fuel in the Low Temperature and Low Burnup Regime
10:00–10:20AM CST
Sukanya Majumder (Purdue), Gyuchul Park (Purdue), T.K. Yao (INL), Kaustubh K. Bawane (INL), Cameron Howard (INL), Kourtney D. Wright (INL), Laura Hawkins (INL), Brandon D. Miller (INL), Jonova Thomas (Purdue), Benjamin Beeler (NCSU), Maria A. Okuniewski (Purdue)
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Lower Length Scale Fuel Performance Modeling of U-Mo Fuel
10:20–10:40AM CST
Benjamin Beeler (NCSU), ATM Jahid Hasan (NCSU), Shenyang Hu (PNNL), Sourabh Kadambi (INL), Linu Malakkal (INL), Zhi-Gang Mei (ANL), Maria Okuniewski (Purdue), Gyuchul Park (ANL), Shipeng Shu (ANL), Bei Ye (ANL), Yongfeng Zhang (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Accelerated Fuel Qualification Using in situ Neutron Diffraction
10:40–11:00AM CST
E.G. Obbard (Univ. New South Wales), J.H. Stansby (Univ. New South Wales), V.K. Peterson (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation), D. Adorno Lopes (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), P.A. Burr (Univ. New South Wales), J. Bevitt (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation), A. Paradowska (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation), E.S. Sooby (Univ. Texas, San Antonio), J.T. White (LANL), P. Olsson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Advancing Thermo-Physical Property Characterization Techniques and Methods for Irradiated Nuclear Fuels
11:00–11:20AM CST
T. R. Pavlov (INL)
Fission Accelerated Steady-State Testing Irradiations and Post Irradiation Examination
11:20–11:40AM CST
S. Patnaik (INL), G.L. Beausoleil (INL), L. Capriotti (INL)
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