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Mark your calendars for the ANS Student Conference
Spring will be here before we know it, and with it will come the 2026 ANS Student Conference, which will take place April 16–18 in College Station, Texas, at Texas A&M University.
Registration for the conference is now open. Click here to learn more.
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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