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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Craig Piercycpiercy@ans.org
This month’s issue of Nuclear News focuses on supply and demand. The “supply” part of the story highlights nuclear’s continued success in providing electricity to the grid more than 90 percent of the time, while the “demand” part explores the seemingly insatiable appetite of hyperscale data centers for steady, carbon-free energy.
Technically, we are in the second year of our AI epiphany, the collective realization that Big Tech’s energy demands are so large that they cannot be met without a historic build-out of new generation capacity. Yet the enormity of it all still seems hard to grasp.
or the better part of two decades, U.S. electricity demand has been flat. Sure, we’ve seen annual fluctuations that correlate with weather patterns and the overall domestic economic performance, but the gigawatt-hours of electricity America consumed in 2021 are almost identical to our 2007 numbers.
Zhigang Li, Junfeng Zhao, Yuanjie Sun, Yue Zhang, Hongtao Zhao
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 199 | Number 6 | June 2025 | Pages 957-966
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2404581
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Perovskite scintillators have garnered significant interest in the realm of gamma-ray imaging in the past few years. Here, a comprehensive investigation into the gamma-ray imaging properties of CsPbBr3-PP composite scintillators is presented, wherein the Monte Carlo simulation approach offered by Geant4 is utilized. The primary focus is on the point spread function and modulation transfer function of the material, elucidating the nuanced interactions between gamma-ray energy, scintillator thickness, and their resultant imaging capabilities. A key aspect of this study is the exploration of the nonlinear and inverse effect of scintillator thickness and the energy of the photon beam on the imaging quality, highlighting the trade-offs between energy deposition and image resolution.
This research underscores the importance of optimizing the scintillator design to balance these factors, catering to specific applications in high-energy detection and imaging. This work not only contributes significantly to the field of material sciences and radiographic imaging, but also provides practical insights for the development of more effective scintillator-based detectors. The findings of this study have broad implications for the design and application of perovskite scintillators in various high-tech industries and scientific research.