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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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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Webinar: MC&A and safety in advanced reactors in focus
Towell
Russell
Prasad
The American Nuclear Society’s Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division recently hosted a webinar on updating material control and accounting (MC&A) and security regulations for the evolving field of advanced reactors.
Moderator Shikha Prasad (CEO, Srijan LLC) was joined by two presenters, John Russell and Lester Towell, who looked at how regulations that were historically developed for traditional light water reactors will apply to the next generation of nuclear technology and what changes need to be made.
Technical Session
Wednesday, May 18, 2022|3:30–5:15PM EDT|Ellwood
Session Chair:
Paul Romano (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
Jaakko Leppänen
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Variance Analysis of the Coupling of Thermal-Hydraulics and Point Kinetics with Stochastic Noise Term Modeling Dynamic Monte Carlo Behavior for Later Use in GUARDYAN
Tamás Hajas (Budapest Univ. Technology and Economics), Gábor Tolnai (Budapest Univ. Technology and Economics), Dávid Légrády (Budapest Univ. Technology and Economics)
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Improving the Variance in Monte Carlo Criticality Calculations with Adaptive Multilevel Splitting
Kévin Fröhlicher (IRSN), Eric Dumonteil (CEA), Loic Thulliez (CEA), Julien Taforeau (IRSN), Mariya Brovchenko (IRSN)
Monte Carlo Source Convergence Acceleration with Multi-Group Inactive Cycles
Valeria Raffuzzi (Univ. Cambridge), Lee Morgan (AWE), Eugene Shwageraus (Univ. Cambridge), Paul Cosgrove (Univ. Cambridge)
Reactor Period Calculations by Monte Carlo Methods: Analysis of the SPERT III E-Core Reactivity Excursions
R. Hourcade (CEA), A. Jinaphanh (CEA), A. Zoia (CEA)
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