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Improving task performance, system reliability, system and personnel safety, efficiency, and effectiveness are the division's main objectives. Its major areas of interest include task design, procedures, training, instrument and control layout and placement, stress control, anthropometrics, psychological input, and motivation.
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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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NRC v. Texas: Supreme Court weighs challenge to NRC authority in spent fuel storage case
The State of Texas has not one but two ongoing federal court challenges to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that could, if successful, turn decades of NRC regulations, precedent, and case law on its head.
K. Behringer, B. Leoni, H. S. Pruys
Nuclear Technology | Volume 25 | Number 3 | March 1975 | Pages 572-575
Technical Paper | Analysis | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24394
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In the D2O moderator of a reactor, a significant 17F activity is produced by the reaction 16O(d, n)17F with recoiling deuterons. Investigations in the DIORIT reactor have shown that this activity can be used within certain limits to monitor the nuclear power.
