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May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Katy Huff on the impact of loosening radiation regulations
Katy Huff, former assistant secretary of nuclear energy at the Department of Energy, recently wrote an op-ed that was published in Scientific American.
In the piece, Huff, who is an ANS member and an associate professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign, argues that weakening Nuclear Regulatory Commission radiation regulations without new research-based evidence will fail to speed up nuclear energy development and could have negative consequences.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPSD
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|4:50–6:30PM EST
Session Chair:
Igor Remec
Alternate Chair:
Irina I. Popova
Session Organizer:
Staff Producer:
Julie Bry (American Nuclear Society)
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Supplemental Shielding for the Advanced Photon Source Upgrade Particle Accumulator Ring
Uli Wienands (Argonne National Laboratory), Chih-yuan Yao (Argonne National Laboratory), Kent Wootton (Argonne National Laboratory), Bradley J. Micklich (Argonne National Laboratory), Stanley Wiedmeyer (Argonne National Laboratory), John Vacca (Argonne National Laboratory), Greg Fystro (Argonne National Laboratory), Victor Guarino (Argonne National Laboratory), Jeffrey Dooling (Argonne National Laboratory), Glenn Decker (Argonne National Laboratory), Joseph Calvey (Argonne National Laboratory), Michael Borland (Argonne National Laboratory), Katherine Harkay (Argonne National Laboratory)
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A Fundamental Study on the Calculation Environment for Radiation Shielding Design of Accelerator Facilities
Nobuo Ikeda (Kyusyu University), Nobuhiro Shigyo (Kyusyu University), Ken-ichi Kimura (Fujita Corporation)
DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF THE SHIELDING OF AN ACCELERATOR DRIVEN THORIUM-FUELED MOLTEN SALT LOOP USING MCNP6
Yassin A. Hassan (Texas A&M University), Rodolfo Vaghetto (Texas A&M University), Se R. Yang (Texas A&M University), Luay Alawneh (Texas A&M University), Eman H. Alsmadi (Texas A&M University)
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