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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
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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