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Isotopes & Radiation
Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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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
Standards Program
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Dragonfly, a Pu-fueled drone heading to Titan, gets key NASA approval
Curiosity landed on Mars sporting a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) in 2012, and a second NASA rover, Perseverance, landed in 2021. Both are still rolling across the red planet in the name of science. Another exploratory craft with a similar plutonium-238–fueled RTG but a very different mission—to fly between multiple test sites on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon—recently got one step closer to deployment.
On April 25, NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) announced that the Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s icy moon passed its critical design review. “Passing this mission milestone means that Dragonfly’s mission design, fabrication, integration, and test plans are all approved, and the mission can now turn its attention to the construction of the spacecraft itself,” according to NASA.
Technical Session|Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification
Tuesday, August 22, 2023|9:00–10:20AM EDT|Embassy
Session Chair:
Joshua Kaizer (USNRC)
Session Organizers:
Jinzhao Zhang (Tractebel)
Alternate Chair:
W. David Pointer (ORNL)
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Validation on SBLOCA Experiment of the ACME Test Facility Using the ATHLET Code
9:00–9:20AM EDT
Liancheng Guo (GRS), Thorsten Hollands (GRS), Henrique Austregesilo (GRS)
Presented by Sebastian Buchholz (GRS)
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Assessment of the CATHARE Code over SUPERCLAUDIA Tests for a Jet in a Liquid Water Pool
9:20–9:40AM EDT
Angela Oliva (CEA), Sofia Carnevali (CEA), Franck Morin (CEA), Stephane Mimouni (EDF)
Simulation of Oscillatory Flow Induced by Flashing Instability Using the ASYST System Analysis Code
9:40–10:00AM EDT
Taiyang Zhang (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Caleb S. Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Validation Against a Small Break LOCA Scenario on ACME Test Facility: Summary of the ISP-51 Open Phase
10:00–10:20AM EDT
Xueyan Zhang (Huazhong Univ. Science and Technology), Shiqi Wang (Huazhong Univ. Science and Technology), Cuiting Peng (Huazhong Univ. Science and Technology), Yuhang Huang (Huazhong Univ. Science and Technology), Zhipeng Luo (Huazhong Univ. Science and Technology), Lin Li (Huazhong Univ. Science and Technology), Yixuan Zhang (Huazhong Univ. Science and Technology), Chengcheng Deng (Huazhong Univ. Science and Technology), Jun Yang (Huazhong Univ. Science and Technology)
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