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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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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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EnergySolutions to help explore advanced reactor development in Utah
Utah-based waste management company EnergySolutions announced that it has signed a memorandum of understating with the Intermountain Power Agency and the state of Utah to explore the development of advanced nuclear power generation at the Intermountain Power Project (IPP) site near Delta, Utah.
The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fuel Materials and Chemistry
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|2:40–4:20PM EST
Session Chair:
Giovanni Pastore (UTK)
Alternate Chair:
Ryan Sweet (ORNL)
Track Organizer:
Scott Palmtag (NCSU)
Staff Producer:
Vincent Novellino (NC State Univ.)
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BISON Methods and Contact Algorithms
Jason Hales (Idaho National Laboratory)
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Lower length scale methods exemplified for U3Si2 fission gas behavior
David Andersson (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Bison Robustness and Performance Improvements
Daniel Schwen (Idaho National Laboratory), Alexander D. Lindsay (Idaho National Laboratory), Benjamin Spencer (Idaho National Laboratory), Stephanie A. Pitts (Idaho National Laboratory), Dylan J. McDowell (Idaho National Laboratory)
Ceramic Nuclear Fuel Fracture Modeling for Relocation with the Extended Finite Element Method
Wen Jiang (Idaho National Laboratory), Benjamin Spencer (Idaho National Laboratory)
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