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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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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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Securing the advanced reactor fleet
Physical protection accounts for a significant portion of a nuclear power plant’s operational costs. As the U.S. moves toward smaller and safer advanced reactors, similar protection strategies could prove cost prohibitive. For tomorrow’s small modular reactors and microreactors, security costs must remain appropriate to the size of the reactor for economical operation.
Technical Session|Computational Methods, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning
Saturday, April 6, 2024|1:35–2:55PM EDT|Engineering Services Building Room 122
Session Chair:
Luiz C. Aldeia Machado (Penn State University)
Alternate Chair:
Alexander S. Hauck (Penn State University)
Session Organizer:
Jonathan B. Balog (Penn State University)
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Machine Learning for Time-Series Prediction of the Cryogenic Moderator System in Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Spallation Neutron Source Facility
1:35–1:55PM EDT
Gavin McDuffee (Tennessee Technological Univ.), William Gurecky (Univ. Texas, Austin), Wesley C. Williams (ORNL), Xingang Zhao (ORNL)
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ML-LIBS: Machine Learning-Based Spectra Predictions of Time-Dependent Lithium Emission Spectroscopy Imaging
1:55–2:15PM EDT
Lauren A. Kohler (NCSU), Jason P. Clifford (NCSU), Nursat Karim (NCSU), Sivanandan S. Harilal (PNNL), Elizabeth Kautz (NCSU), Xu Wu (NCSU)
Parameter Importances from Random Forest Machine Learning for Accident Tolerant Fuel Pool Boiling
2:15–2:35PM EDT
Eliot R. Ciuperca (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Juliana P. Duarte (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Bruno P. Serrao (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
A Preliminary Exploration into Using Mixture Density Networks to Compress Data in Monte Carlo Codes
2:35–2:55PM EDT
Eappen S. Nelluvelil (Univ. Colorado, Boulder), Anna Matsekh (LANL), Arvind Mohan (LANL), Mathew A. Cleveland (LANL), Alex Long (LANL)
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