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Webinar: MC&A and safety in advanced reactors in focus
Towell
Russell
Prasad
The American Nuclear Society’s Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division recently hosted a webinar on updating material control and accounting (MC&A) and security regulations for the evolving field of advanced reactors.
Moderator Shikha Prasad (CEO, Srijan LLC) was joined by two presenters, John Russell and Lester Towell, who looked at how regulations that were historically developed for traditional light water reactors will apply to the next generation of nuclear technology and what changes need to be made.
14th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Applications of Accelerators
Technical Session
Friday, December 3, 2021|1:00–2:45PM EST |Lincoln West
Session Chair:
Lin Shao (TAMU)
Session Organizer:
Andrew Hutton
Student Assistant:
Mark Johnson
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What the World Needs Now ... is More Neutrons
1:05–1:25PM EST
Charles D. Bowman (The ADNA Corporation)
Paper
Overview of Shielding Analyses for the VENUS Instrument
1:25–1:45PM EST
I.I. Popova (ORNL), F.X. Gallmeier (ORNL)
EXPanded Angle Neutron Spin Echo, EXPANSE, for the Second Target Station
1:45–2:05PM EST
Changwoo Do (ORNL), Rana Ashkar (Virginia Tech), Wei-Ren Chen (ORNL), Georg Ehlers (ORNL), Peter Falus (ILL), Antonio Faraone (NIST), Jason Gardner (ORNL), Reika Katsumata (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Bradley Olsen (MIT), Maikel C. Rheinstädter (McMaster University), Yangyang Wang (ORNL), Yang Z. (YZ) (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
The Influence of the Particle Beam and Accelerator Type on ADS Efficiency
2:05–2:25PM EST
M. Paraipan (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research), V. M. Javadova (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research), S. I. Tyutyunnikov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
A Prototype Compact Accelerator Driven Neutron Source for Canada Supporting Medical and Scientific Applications
2:25–2:45PM EST
Dalini D. Maharaj (Univ. Windsor), Mina Abbaslou (TRIUMF), Sana Tabbassum (Purdue), Alexander Gottberg (TRIUMF), Marco Marchetto (TRIUMF), Zin Tun (TVB Assoc.), Linda H. Nie (Purdue), Oliver Kester (TRIUMF), Drew Marquardt (Univ. Windsor), Robert Laxdal (TRIUMF)
Attachment — AccApp Presentation 2021
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