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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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The RAIN scale: A good intention that falls short
Radiation protection specialists agree that clear communication of radiation risks remains a vexing challenge that cannot be solved solely by finding new ways to convey technical information.
Earlier this year, an article in Nuclear News described a new radiation risk communication tool, known as the Radiation Index, or, RAIN (“Let it RAIN: A new approach to radiation communication,” NN, Jan. 2025, p. 36). The authors of the article created the RAIN scale to improve radiation risk communication to the general public who are not well-versed in important aspects of radiation exposures, including radiation dose quantities, units, and values; associated health consequences; and the benefits derived from radiation exposures.
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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