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The RAIN scale: A good intention that falls short
Radiation protection specialists agree that clear communication of radiation risks remains a vexing challenge that cannot be solved solely by finding new ways to convey technical information.
Earlier this year, an article in Nuclear News described a new radiation risk communication tool, known as the Radiation Index, or, RAIN (“Let it RAIN: A new approach to radiation communication,” NN, Jan. 2025, p. 36). The authors of the article created the RAIN scale to improve radiation risk communication to the general public who are not well-versed in important aspects of radiation exposures, including radiation dose quantities, units, and values; associated health consequences; and the benefits derived from radiation exposures.
J. E. Morel, J. M. McGhee
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 116 | Number 2 | February 1994 | Pages 73-85
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE94-A21484
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A synthetic scheme for accelerating the convergence of the fission source in time-dependent multigroup even-parity Sn calculations with downscatter is described. The low-order operator associated with this scheme is a one-group diffusion operator. Thus, this scheme can be thought of as a variant of diffusion synthetic acceleration. A Fourier analysis of this scheme is performed, which indicates that it is unconditionally effective for a spatially infinite model problem. Computational results are presented that show excellent performance of the method in three-dimensional calculations. Although this method is derived for the even-parity Sn equations, it can easily be generalized for application to the standard first-order Sn equations. The accelerated iteration equations for both the even-parity and first-order Sn equations are given, but only the even-parity algorithm is computationally tested.