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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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Legislators look to advance nuclear power in the Lone Star State
Texas lawmakers are considering legislative action this session on recommendations made last November by the Texas Advanced Nuclear Reactor Working Group.
Senate Bill 1105 calls for the establishment of a state-run advanced nuclear energy authority, a state permitting office, and an advanced nuclear innovation fund. Republican state Sen. Tan Parker introduced the bill.
Nuclear footprint: Texas currently has two large nuclear plants—Commanche Peak and South Texas Project—comprising four reactors that supplied nearly 10 percent of the state’s power last year.
Small modular reactors are also planned in Texas. Dow Chemical and X-energy are targeting a cluster of SMRs to support Dow’s manufacturing site in Seadrift on the Gulf Coast. At Abeline Christian University, about 200 miles west of Dallas, Natura Resources plans to install a test reactor using molten-salt cooling.
Radiation Protection and Shielding Division 2024 (RPSD 2024)
Technical Session
Tuesday, November 19, 2024|10:00–11:45AM EST|Longboat 1
Session Chairs:
Joel A. Kulesza (LANL)
Curtis Brown (MPR)
Alternate Chair:
Matthew Anderson (INL)
Session Organizer:
Michael Reichenberger
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A Numerical Investigation and Comparison of 26 Types of Concrete for Shielding in Proton Therapy Facilities
10:00–10:20AM EST
Po-Wen Fang (Nat'l Tsing Hua Univ.), Rong-Jiun Sheu (Nat'l Tsing Hua Univ.)
Paper
Simplifying Radiation Transport Simulations with Cyclone Sage
10:20–10:40AM EST
Daniel Cork (Orthrus Software), Peter Taylor (Orthrus Software), John Billingsley (Cerberus Nuclear)
Machine Learning in Accelerator Shielding: Application Using Convolutional Neural Networks
10:40–11:00AM EST
Rajarshi Pal Chowdhury (Michigan State), Juan Zamora (Michigan State), Tom Ginter (Michigan State), Georg Bollen (Michigan State)
ADEPT -- Virtual Reality Visualization and Real-Time Calculation of Dose Rate Fields for Dose Planning
11:00–11:20AM EST
Anderson Alves (KINECTRICS), Eric Heritage (KINECTRICS), Matthew Smith (KINECTRICS)
Predicting Solution Color in Solvent Extraction Using Machine Learning and Non-Traditional Sensor Measurements
11:20–11:40AM EST
Omobolade Odedoyin (John Hopkins University), Edna Cardenas (INL), Luis A. Ocampo Giraldo (INL), Mitchell R. Greenhalgh (INL), Jay D. Hix (INL)
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