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Division Spotlight
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.
Meeting Spotlight
2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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Ukrainian nuclear innovator competition winners announced
For the second consecutive year, the Ukrainian Nuclear Society (UkrNS) held its Nuclear Innovators competition, was organized in partnership with ANS and other leading institutions in the nuclear sector worldwide. The two winners were announced on May 7.
International Conference on Physics of Reactors 2024 Plenary SPeaker
Senior Expert
Department of Code Development and Validation
FRAMATOME
Patrick Blaise, PhD, Ing., is Senior Expert at FRAMATOME Department of Code Development and Validation, where is working in support of R&D in the frame of advanced calculation schemes and coupling methods in core physics. He was former Research Director at the Scientific Division of Energies at CEA (French Atomic and Alternative Energies Commission) until 2023.
He was former head of the Experimental Programs Laboratory in the Experimental Physics Section from 2012 to 2018, in charge of designing and conducting experimental programs in 3 main ZPRs: EOLE, MINERVE and MASURCA on the CEA Cadarache Research Centre, and technical contact person for several international collaborations in the field of Zero Power Reactor experimental physics.
Engineer from Brussels Industrial High School (1991), Master in Nuclear Engineering from Louvain Polytechnic School (1992) and a PhD in Nuclear Engineering from Marseille University (1996), he has about 30 years of experience in the field of experimental programs in critical facilities.
His major fields of research and expertise are experimental reactor physics and associated instrumentation, as well as nuclear data and code V&V.
He is supervisor of several PhD students and co-authored more than 180 papers in peer-review journals and conferences.
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