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Decommissioning & Environmental Sciences
The mission of the Decommissioning and Environmental Sciences (DES) Division is to promote the development and use of those skills and technologies associated with the use of nuclear energy and the optimal management and stewardship of the environment, sustainable development, decommissioning, remediation, reutilization, and long-term surveillance and maintenance of nuclear-related installations, and sites. The target audience for this effort is the membership of the Division, the Society, and the public at large.
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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2023)
February 6–9, 2023
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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Belgium mulls life extension for more reactors
The Belgian government is exploring the idea of extending the operational life of its three oldest reactors by two years, a variety of news outlets are reporting.
Those reactors—Units 1 and 2 at the Doel facility and Unit 1 at Tihange, sporting a combined capacity of 1,852 MWe—were slated to be permanently shuttered in 2025 in keeping with the country’s nuclear phase-out policy.
Technical Session|Sponsored by Detection & Measurement
Friday, April 15, 2022|9:45–11:15AM CDT|Honors Room
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Evaluating Organic Scintillators for use with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
Nathan J. Matalavage (US Naval Academy)
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Classical and Quantum Hopfield Network for Applications in Radiation Anomaly Detection
Luis A. Valdez (UTSA), Alexander Heifetz (ANL), Miltos Alamaniotis (Univ. Texas, San Antonio)
Light Output Response Characterization of Deuterated Trans-stilbene for Neutron Spectroscopy
Jianxin Zhou (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Natalie C. Gaughan (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Angela Di Fulvio (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Modeling of Charge and Energy Deposition by Radiation into Vacuum-Ultraviolet Photodetectors
Youssef Abouhussien (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Gennady Miloshevsky (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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