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Radiation Protection & Shielding
The Radiation Protection and Shielding Division is developing and promoting radiation protection and shielding aspects of nuclear science and technology — including interaction of nuclear radiation with materials and biological systems, instruments and techniques for the measurement of nuclear radiation fields, and radiation shield design and evaluation.
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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NWMO chooses vendors for Canadian repository
Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization has selected five companies it is to work with to design and plan the organization’s proposed deep geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel. As the owner of the project, the NWMO will be working with WSP Canada, Peter Kiewit Sons (Kiewit), Hatch Ltd., Thyssen Mining Construction of Canada, and Kinectrics.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|4:50–6:30PM EST
Session Chair:
Ling Zou
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Matthew D. Zimmer
Staff Producer:
Pat Schroeder (American Nuclear Society)
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Momentum Source Modeling of Spacer Grid and Mixing Vanes in Small Modular Reactors
Jun Fang (Argonne National Laboratory), Dillon R. Shaver (Argonne National Laboratory), Elia Merzari (Pennsylvania State University)
Paper
Lateral flow characterizations in a 5x5 rod bundle with spacer grid
Camila Freitas Matozinhos (Texas A&M University), Gabriel Caio Queiroz Tomaz (Texas A&M University), Thien Nguyen (Texas A&M University), Yassin A. Hassan (Texas A&M University)
On The Effect of The Aspect Ratio on The Stability of Single-phase Rectangular Thermosiphons
Tri Nguyen (The Pennsylvania State University), Elia Merzari (The Pennsylvania State University)
1D Fixed Flux Two-Fluid Model For Vertical Adiabatic Slug Flow
Krishna Chetty (Purdue University), Alejandro Clausse (CNEA-CONICET and National University of Central Buenos Aires), Martin A. Lopez de Bertodano (Purdue University)
Subchannel Mass Transfer Analysis of a 5 x 5 Rod Bundle Using PIV and Matching of Index of Refraction
Gabriel Caio Queiroz Tomaz (Texas A&M University), Camila Freitas Matozinhos (Texas A&M University), Duy-Thien Nguyen (Texas A&M University), Yassin A. Hassan (Texas A&M University)
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