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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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NECX debut: Shaping the next era of energy
The sold-out inaugural Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX) got off to a bumping start in Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday morning with an opening plenary that felt like part dance party and part highlight reel showing off the latest industry achievements.
That intro left the audience pumped up for Entergy’s CEO and NEI chair Drew Marsh, who welcomed everyone to the event, hosted jointly by the American Nuclear Society and the Nuclear Energy Institute. He spoke to a full house of more than 1,300 attendees, promising a blend of science, technology, policy, and advocacy centered around the future of nuclear energy.
R. Wayne Houston
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 4 | Number 2 | August 1958 | Pages 227-238
doi.org/10.13182/NSE58-A15364
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
For samples exposed in high neutron flux regions of reactors the contribution to the total dosage due to the recoils from elastically scattered fast neutrons may be significant. The calculation of this contribution is considered here. Three methods are presented, each differing in the manner in which the details of the energy distribution of fast neutrons are treated. In the first, the neutron flux per unit energy interval is assumed to be of the asymptotic or 1/E form up to fission energies. In the second and third, a separate computation is made for the uncollided neutrons reaching the sample. The remaining contribution due to once-scattered neutrons is treated as in the first method, but alternate forms for the source spectrum of once-scattered neutrons are considered. Use of the equations requires only a knowledge of the thermal neutron flux in the vicinity of the sample. Assumptions and limitations are discussed. Numerical results are presented for comparison of the effects in light water, heavy water, and graphite moderated reactors in the irradiation of a hydrocarbon (cyclohexane) sample.