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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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The RAIN scale: A good intention that falls short
Radiation protection specialists agree that clear communication of radiation risks remains a vexing challenge that cannot be solved solely by finding new ways to convey technical information.
Earlier this year, an article in Nuclear News described a new radiation risk communication tool, known as the Radiation Index, or, RAIN (“Let it RAIN: A new approach to radiation communication,” NN, Jan. 2025, p. 36). The authors of the article created the RAIN scale to improve radiation risk communication to the general public who are not well-versed in important aspects of radiation exposures, including radiation dose quantities, units, and values; associated health consequences; and the benefits derived from radiation exposures.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Thursday, December 2, 2021|10:00–11:45AM EST |Columbia 10
Session Chair:
Xu Wu (NC State Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Subash Sharma (Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell)
Session Organizer:
Matthew D. Zimmer
Student Assistant:
Aman Gupta
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Scaled Subassembly Approach for Thermal Hydraulic Modeling of a Prismatic Gas Cooled Reactor using SAM
10:05–10:25AM EST
Brent Hollrah (ANL), Ling Zou (ANL), Claudio Filippone (HolosGen)
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CFD Analysis of Cartridge Experiment Natural Circulation
10:25–10:45AM EST
Jaden Miller (Oregon State Univ.), Trevor Kent Howard (Oregon State Univ.), Musa Moussaoui (Oregon State Univ.), Wade Marcum (Oregon State Univ.)
Predicting the Pressure Drop In Hexagonal Wire-Wrapped Rod Bundles Using a Data-Driven Artificial Neural Network
10:45–11:05AM EST
Hansol Kim (Texas A&M Univ.), Yu Min Chen (Texas A&M Univ.), Rodolfo Vaghetto (Texas A&M Univ.), Yassin Hassan (Texas A&M Univ.)
Transient Pool Boiling Under Subcooled Conditions
11:05–11:25AM EST
Yuan Gao (Univ. of Pittsburgh), Ezekiel Villarreal (Univ. of Pittsburgh), Ursula Zangrilli (Univ. of Pittsburgh), Heng Ban (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
Novel Distributed Flow Velocity Using a Temperature Fiber Optic in Gas Flow
11:25–11:45AM EST
Arturo Cabral (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Darius Lisowski (ANL), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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