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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
Standards Program
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Radiation Protection and Shielding Division 2024 (RPSD 2024)
Technical Session
Tuesday, November 19, 2024|8:00–9:45AM EST|Longboat 1
Session Chairs:
Cihangir Celik
Christophe Destouches (CEA)
Session Organizer:
Michael Reichenberger
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Effects of Heteroskedastic Uncertainty on Optimal Dose Distributions for Additive Dose Methods in EPR Dosimetry
8:00–8:20AM EST
Melody G. Polk (NCSU), Robert B. Hayes (NCSU)
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Towards an Energy Deposition Tally in SCALE/MAVRIC
8:20–8:40AM EST
Cihangir Celik (ORNL), Andrew M. Holcomb (OECD NEA), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
Qualifying the Instrument Thimble 11 Position in the Advanced Test Reactor Critical
8:40–9:00AM EST
Dani G. Ottaway (INL), Kelly M. McCary (INL), Daren R. Norman (INL), Michael A. Reichenberger (INL)
The MADERE Platform: Update of the γ and X-Ray Activity Measurements Techniques
9:00–9:20AM EST
Nicolas Thiollay (CEA), Christophe Destouches (CEA), Christophe Domergue (CEA), David Tisseur (CEA)
Update on the CEA Reactor Dosimetry Methodology Developed for Activity Analysis
9:20–9:40AM EST
Christophe Destouches (CEA), Nicolas Thiollay (CEA), Clément Fausser (CEA), Gilles Grégoire (CEA), David Tisseur (CEA)
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