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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
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DOE-EM awards $74.8M Oak Ridge support services contract
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has awarded a five-year contract worth up to $74.8 million to Independent Strategic Management Solutions for professional support services at the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management site in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
T. W. Armstrong, H. S. Moran
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 42 | Number 1 | October 1970 | Pages 41-48
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE70-A19325
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Calculations have been carried out to estimate the absorbed-dose and dose-equivalent rates at various depths in the atmosphere produced by an energetic solar flare—the flare of February 23, 1956. The dose rates are determined both by computing flux spectra using air only and applying flux-to-dose conversion factors and by computing the dose rates in tissue using an air-tissue-air arrangement. The two methods of calculation are in reasonable agreement when the flux-to-dose factors are applied to the forward-flux spectra, but the calculations indicate that previous results obtained using omnidirectional-flux spectra overestimate the dose rates. Also, the effect of the fuel carried by a supersonic aircraft on the dose received by the passengers in the event of a solar flare has been considered and found not to be substantial.
