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NEUP honors young ANS members with R&D awards
Each year, the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) recognizes graduate and undergraduate students for their innovative nuclear energy research. The winners of the Innovations in Nuclear Energy Research and Development Student Competition (INSC) receive honoraria along with travel and conference opportunities, including the chance to present their publications at the annual American Nuclear Society Winter Conference & Expo.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 3 | Number 5 | May 1958 | Pages 609-619
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE58-A25495
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Measurements have been made of the distribution of exposure dose in the neighborhood of a plane boundary separating two media of very different density, steel-wool and steel. A point-isotropic Co60 source was located in the vicinity of the boundary. Control measurements were performed in a homogeneous medium of steel-wool. In this way the effect on gamma-ray propagation of an abrupt density change was established. The main result was a progressive decrease of exposure dose near the density-interface compared with the homogeneous medium situation, as the source-detector distance was increased. There is good agreement between the experimental results and corresponding Monte Carlo calculations.