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Reactor Physics
The division's objectives are to promote the advancement of knowledge and understanding of the fundamental physical phenomena characterizing nuclear reactors and other nuclear systems. The division encourages research and disseminates information through meetings and publications. Areas of technical interest include nuclear data, particle interactions and transport, reactor and nuclear systems analysis, methods, design, validation and operating experience and standards. The Wigner Award heads the awards program.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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EnergySolutions to help explore advanced reactor development in Utah
Utah-based waste management company EnergySolutions announced that it has signed a memorandum of understating with the Intermountain Power Agency and the state of Utah to explore the development of advanced nuclear power generation at the Intermountain Power Project (IPP) site near Delta, Utah.
Decommissioning Environmental Science and Remote Technology 2021
Technical Session
Friday, December 3, 2021|8:00–9:45AM EST |Georgetown West
Session Chairs:
Leonel E. Lagos
Sungmoon Joo
Brian O'Neil (LANL)
Session Organizer:
Young Soo Park
Student Assistant:
Tri Nguyen
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Multi-Agent-Based Wall-Climbing Robot System for Safety Inspection of Nuclear Power Plant
8:05–8:25AM EST
Young-woon Song (Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology), Jungill Kang (Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology), Taesik Kim (Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology), Son-Cheol Yu (Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology)
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Development of an In-Water Light-Duty Robot for Use in the Decommissioning of the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants
8:25–8:45AM EST
Shinji Kawatsuma (National Institute of Technology, Fukushima College), Shigekazu Suzuki (National Institute of Technology, Fukushima College)
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MATLAB-Based 3D Virtual Manipulator Simulator for Remote Dismantling of Nuclear Reactor
8:45–9:05AM EST
Hamza Khan (Pusan National Univ.), Jin Won Lee (Pusan National Univ.), Min Cheol Lee (Pusan National Univ.), Seokyoung Ahn (Pusan National Univ.), Suh Jeong (Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials), Dae-Won Cho (Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials)
Preliminary Study on Point Cloud-Based Object Pose Estimation in Robotic Nuclear Decommissioning Applications
9:05–9:25AM EST
Sungmoon Joo (KAERI), Hogeon Seo (KAERI)
A Cooperative Unmanned Disaster Responding System at KAERI
9:25–9:45AM EST
Dongseok Ryu (KAERI), Youngsoo Choi (KAERI)
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