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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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2027 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
October 31–November 4, 2027
Washington, DC|The Westin Washington, DC Downtown
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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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Drones fly in to inspect waste tanks at Savannah River Site
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management will soon, for the first time, begin using drones to internally inspect radioactive liquid waste tanks at the department’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Inspections were previously done using magnetic wall-crawling robots.
Technical Session|Fuel Cycle and Other Applications
Tuesday, April 23, 2024|1:30–3:15PM PDT|Continental Ballroom 1
Session Chair:
Satoshi Gunji (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Alternate Chair:
Donny Hartanto (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Go Chiba (Hokkaido University)
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SCALE 6.3.1 Radiation Source Terms and Shielding Analysis for a Postulated Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Accident Scenario
1:30–1:50PM PDT
G. Radulescu (ORNL), D. Hartanto (ORNL), F. Bostelmann (ORNL), W. Wieselquist (ORNL)
Paper
An Open Source Multiphysics Workflow for the Analysis of Fusion Driven Systems
1:50–2:10PM PDT
Matthew J. Nyberg (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Joseph T. Eickman (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Patrick C. Shriwise (ANL), Ben A. Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Theory of Neutron Multiplicity Counting in an Energy-Dependent Transport Model
2:10–2:30PM PDT
Victor Dykin (Chalmers Univ. Technology), Senada Avdic (Univ. Tuzla), Imre Pázsit (Chalmers Univ. Technology)
Presented by Paolo Vinai (Chalmers Univ. Technology)
Development of a Steady State Reactor Physics Surrogate Model for the Idaho State University AGN-201 Digital Twin Using MOOSE
2:30–2:50PM PDT
Quinton J. Williams (Oregon State), Ryan H. Stewart (INL), Todd S. Palmer (Oregon State), Camille J. Palmer (Oregon State), Chad Pope (Idaho State), Ashley Shields (INL), Christopher Ritter (INL)
Sub-Pin Fission Product Sensitivity to Assembly and Core Models on High-Burnup Fuel and Comparison to Experimental Measurements
2:50–3:10PM PDT
Andrew Conant (ORNL), Mehdi Asgari (ORNL), Aaron Graham (ORNL), Greg Balco (LLNL)
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