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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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At the Idaho National Laboratory Hot Fuel Examination Facility, containment box operator Jake Maupin moves a manipulator arm into position around a pencil-thin nuclear fuel rod. He is preparing for a procedure that he and his colleagues have practiced repeatedly in anticipation of this moment in the hot cell.
Radiation Protection and Shielding Division 2024 (RPSD 2024)
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 20, 2024|10:00–11:45AM EST|Longboat 1
Session Chairs:
Vaibhav Sinha (OSU)
Lawrence Heilbronn (UTK)
Session Organizer:
Mathieu Dupont
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Dose and Shielding Challenges within Sellafield Ltd Alpha Facilities
10:00–10:20AM EST
Erin Wilson (Sellafield), Frances Yates (Sellafield)
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Wasted Nuclear Products
10:20–10:40AM EST
Patrick Hartwell (NCSU), Robert Hayes (NCSU)
Effective Communication of Radiological Risk
10:40–11:00AM EST
Melody G. Polk (NCSU), Robert B. Hayes (NCSU)
Assessment of Radiation Dose to Newborns in Neonatal Intensive Care Units
11:00–11:20AM EST
Nada A. Alomairy (Jazan Univ.)
A Monte Carlo-Based Path Tracing Framework for Voxelized Domains
11:20–11:40AM EST
Istiak Ahmad (Kansas State), Steven Eckels (Kansas State), Amir A. Bahadori (Kansas State)
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