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ANS webinar looks at radiation studies and living near nuclear plants
In February, a study published in Nature Communications found a correlation between proximity to nuclear power plants and rates of cancer mortality. While the authors acknowledged that causation could not be established, they nonetheless said that calculations supported evidence of 115,586 “cancer deaths attributable to nuclear power plants proximity.”
On its release, this study garnered significant media attention—sparking worry among the public and immediate pushback from radiation experts. ANS recently hosted a webinar taking a deeper look at what that study (and other similar proximity studies) got wrong, the science behind what we do and do not know, and why these conversations matter.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) 2020 Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fusion Energy
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|4:50–6:30PM EST|2
Session Chair:
Arnie Lumsdaine (ORNL)
Staff Producer:
Mary Tong (American Nuclear Society)
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Heat transport augmentation using vibration material excited by boiling bubbles for heat removal from divertor
Noriyuki Unno (Tokyo University of Science), Shin-ichi Satake (Tokyo University of Science), Jun Taniguchi, Kazuhisa Yuki
Paper
W emissivity and surface temperature in ITER
Dominique Guilhem (CEA Cadarache)
Predicted Heat Flux Performance of Actively Cooled Tungsten-Armored Graphitic Foam Monoblocks
Douglas Wolfe (ARL/PSU), Brian Williams (Ultramet, Inc.), James Klett (ORNL), Dennis Youchison (ORNL)
Reference — Summary
Determining the poloidal distribution W sourcing by light impurities and heating method in the fully W PFC in WEST
C. C. Klepper, W. R. Wampler, E. Tsitrone, J.-Y. Pascal, A. L. Neff, J. P. Gunn, N. Fedorczak, C. Desgranges, G. Ciraolo, A. Gallo, Ezekial Unterberg (ORNL)
