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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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A webinar, and a new opportunity to take ANS’s CNP Exam
Applications are now open for the fall 2025 testing period for the American Nuclear Society’s Certified Nuclear Professional (CNP) exam. Applications are being accepted through October 14, and only three testing sessions are offered per year, so it is important to apply soon. The test will be administered from November 12 through December 16. To check eligibility and schedule your exam, click here.
In addition, taking place tomorrow (September 19) from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. (CDT), ANS will host a new webinar, “How to Become a Certified Nuclear Professional.” More information is available below in this article.
Radiation Protection and Shielding Division 2024 (RPSD 2024)
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 20, 2024|3:15–5:00PM EST|Longboat 1
Session Chairs:
Mathieu Dupont (ORNL)
Michael Reichenberger (INL)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
John D. Bess
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Validation of Nuclear Data Using Broomstick Experiments in VR-1 Reactor
3:15–3:35PM EST
Michal Kostal (Research Center Rez), Zdeněk Matěj (Masaryk Univ.), Evzen Losa (Research Center Rez), Tomáš Czakoj (Research Center Rez), Stanislav Simakov (INR-KIT), Marek Zmeškal (Research Center Rez), Martin Schulc (Research Center Rez), Jan Šimon (Research Center Rez), Vojtěch Rypar (Research Center Rez), František Cvachovec (Masaryk Univ.), Filip Mravec (Masaryk Univ.), Václav Přenosil (Masaryk Univ.), Peter Krásný (Research Center Rez), Roberto Capote (IAEA)
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Sensitivity Analysis and Uncertainty Quantification in PWR Irradiation Ageing Like problems
3:35–3:55PM EST
Juan A. Monleon de la Lluvia (IRSN), Mariya Brovchenko (IRSN), Dimitri Rochman (Paul Scherrer Institute), Eric Dumonteil (CEA)
Release of SOURCES4D Featuring Sensitivity Capabilities
3:55–4:15PM EST
Jeffrey A. Favorite (LANL)
Beta-Delayed Gamma Radiation Benchmark for the ENDF/B-VIII.0 Decay Data Sub-Library
4:15–4:35PM EST
Z. Harris (Univ. Arkansas), B. Hill (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), S. Kim (Brookhaven), A. Mattera (Brookhaven), E.A. McCutchan (Brookhaven), O. Palaguachi (Colgate University), M. Seeley (Stony Brook University), A.A. Sonzogni (Brookhaven)
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