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HPS's Eric Goldin: On health physics
Eric Goldin, president of the Health Physics Society, is a radiation safety specialist with 40 years of experience in power reactor health physics, supporting worker and public radiation safety programs. A certified health physicist since 1984, he has served on the American Board of Health Physics, and since 2004, he has been a member of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements’ Program Area Committee 2, which provides guidance for radiation safety in occupational settings for a variety of industries and activities. He was awarded HPS Fellow status in 2012 and was elected to the NCRP in 2014.
Goldin’s radiological engineering experience includes ALARA programs, instrumentation, radioactive waste management, emergency planning, dosimetry, decommissioning, licensing, effluents, and environmental monitoring.
The HPS, headquartered in Herndon, Va., is the largest radiation safety society in the world. Its membership includes scientists, safety professionals, physicists, engineers, attorneys, and other professionals from academia, industry, medical institutions, state and federal government, the national laboratories, the military, and other organizations.
The HPS’s activities include encouraging research in radiation science, developing standards, and disseminating radiation safety information. Its members are involved in understanding, evaluating, and controlling the potential risks from radiation relative to the benefits.
Goldin talked about the HPS and health physics activities with Rick Michal, editor-in-chief of Nuclear News.
C. S. Brown, I. A. Bolotnov
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 184 | Number 3 | November 2016 | Pages 363-376
Technical Paper | dx.doi.org/10.13182/NSE15-126
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The spectral analysis of turbulent single- and two-phase direct numerical simulation (DNS) data in flat plane channel, circular pipe, and reactor subchannel geometries is performed using the recorded DNS velocity fluctuations as a function of time and applying the fast Fourier transform. This results in an energy spectrum of the liquid turbulence in a frequency domain. The complexity of multiphase flow results in a mixed velocity time history coming from either the liquid or the gas phase. A modified single-phase signal that mimics the presence of bubbles (“pseudo-void”) is developed to quantify the effect of the liquid signal intermittency as the bubble passes through a virtual probe.
Comparisons of single-phase, pseudo-void, and two-phase results quantify the changes to the expected −5/3 slope of the energy spectrum for single-phase flows due to turbulent interactions caused by the wakes behind a bubble. The two-phase energy spectra show a slope close to −3 and similar shape in the different geometries while single-phase energy spectra exhibit the expected −5/3 slope. Pseudo-void results indicate that the change to the energy spectrum in bubbly two-phase flows is due entirely from liquid turbulence interactions with the bubble wakes.
A comprehensive spectral analysis for different geometries and different Reynolds number flows at varying distances from the wall is an essential step in developing physically sound closure models for bubble-liquid interactions. The comparison between different geometries demonstrates the direct applicability of various models to reactor-relevant geometries.
