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Radiation Protection & Shielding
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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MURR expansion set back by Mo. state legislature
Spirits were high last month when a ribbon cutting was held at the University of Missouri for a $20 million, three-story, 47,000-square-foot addition, dubbed MURR West, to the MURR research reactor facilities.
Technical Session
Monday, May 16, 2022|1:30–3:15PM EDT|Fountainview
Session Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni (UC Berkeley)
Alternate Chair:
Nicolas E. Stauff (ANL)
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A Preconceptual Design of an Inverted Stable-Salt Reactor
Cihang Lu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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Neutronic Design and Fuel Cycle Analysis of a Fluoride Salt-Cooled High Temperature Reactor (FHR)
Zuolong Zhu (Ohio State), Dean Wang (Ohio State)
Fast Modular Reactor Nuclear Design Parameters of Fuel Cycle and Power Distributions
Darrin Leer (General Atomics), Hangbok Choi (General Atomics), John Bolin (General Atomics), Alexander Dheming (General Atomics), Oscar Gutierrez (General Atomics)
Presented by Ron Faibish (General Atomics)
Initital Development of a Generic Fluoride Salt-Cooled Reactor Model
Robert F. Kile (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Friederike Bostelmann (ORNL), Steven E. Skutnik (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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