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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
Thursday, November 19, 2020|2:30–4:15PM EST|2
Session Chair:
Phil Ferguson (ORNL)
Staff Producer:
Mary Tong (American Nuclear Society)
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Morphological Change in Tungsten by Off-normal Angled Femtosecond Laser
Minsuk Seo (Penn State), Shukai Yu, Venkatraman Gopalan, Leigh Winfrey
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Comprehensive investigation of helium desorption behavior in tungsten by integrated experiments and simulation
Congyi Li (UT Knoxville Tickle College of Engineering), Cuicai Fan, Wendy Garcia, Xunxiang Hu, Brian Wirth
Utilization of eroding thermocouples in the small angle slot divertor of DIII-D for assessment of heat flux and plasma detachment
David Christian Donovan (UT Knoxville), Jun Ren (University of Tennessee-Knoxville), Jonathan Watkins, H.Q. Wang, Daniel Thomas, Rejean Boivin
