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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
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EST|2
Session Chair:
Tim Bohm (Univ Wisconsin Madison)
Staff Producer:
Mary Tong (American Nuclear Society)
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Recent advances in LHD deuterium experiment with emphasis on fusion neutron production and its measurement
Mitsutaka Isobe (NIFS), Tomohiro Morisaki (NIFS), Masaki Osakabe (NIFS), Yasuhiro Suzuki (NIFS), Hiromi Takahashi (NIFS), Makoto Kobayashi (NIFS), Kunihiro Ogawa (NIFS)
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Validity of one-step methodology to compute shutdown dose rate in areas of ITER tokamak exposed to high neutron fluences
Javier Sanz, Patrick Sauvan, Rafael Juárez, Gabriel Pedroche (ETSI-UNED)
Increasing the efficiency of particle transport modeling and shutdown dose rate calculations
Alex Valentine, Thomas Stainer, Jonathan Naish, Tim Eade (UKAEA)
Presentation Video (Visible to Attendees) — Increasing the efficiency of particle transport modelling and R2S calculations - Presentation
Characterization of the neutron field with JET torus MCNP models
Igor Lengar (Institut Jozef Stefan), Luka Snoj, Bor Kos, Jonathan Naish, Rosaria Villari, Lee Packer, Aljaz Cufar, Paola Batistoni, Andrej Zohar, Sean Conroy
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ITER neutronics modeling with D1S-UNED code for shutdown dose rate
Javier Sanz, Aljaz Kolsek, Antonio Jesus Lopez-Revelles, Gabriel Pedroche, Patrick Sauvan, Rafael Juarez (UNED)