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Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy
The mission of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division (NNPD) is to promote the peaceful use of nuclear technology while simultaneously preventing the diversion and misuse of nuclear material and technology through appropriate safeguards and security, and promotion of nuclear nonproliferation policies. To achieve this mission, the objectives of the NNPD are to: Promote policy that discourages the proliferation of nuclear technology and material to inappropriate entities. Provide information to ANS members, the technical community at large, opinion leaders, and decision makers to improve their understanding of nuclear nonproliferation issues. Become a recognized technical resource on nuclear nonproliferation, safeguards, and security issues. Serve as the integration and coordination body for nuclear nonproliferation activities for the ANS. Work cooperatively with other ANS divisions to achieve these objective nonproliferation policies.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
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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.
Darrell M. Drake, John C. Hopkins, C. S. Young, H. Condé
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 40 | Number 2 | May 1970 | Pages 294-305
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE70-A19690
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The differential cross sections for the production of gamma radiation from fast-neutron inelastic scattering have been measured at incident neutron energies from 4.00 to 7.67 MeV for Be, C, O, Al, Si, Fe, Ni, Nb, W, and 239Pu. The gamma-ray spectra were measured with a NaI(Tl) spectrometer using time-of-flight techniques to eliminate the neutron background. The gamma-ray detector was surrounded with a large NaI(Tl) annulus operated in the anticoincidence mode. The resulting spectra were unfolded and appropriate corrections were applied for neutron and gamma-ray attenuation, for electronic dead time, and for detector efficiency.
