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Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Health physicists respond to EO
Dewji
Bahadori
Caffrey
Three authorities on health physics have written a response to President Trump’s Executive Order 14300, “Ordering the Reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.”
Published June 27 on Substack, “Radiation Protection Policy in a Nuclear Era: Recommendations from Health Physicists in Response to EO 14300” was written by Emily A. Caffrey, assistant professor and director of the Health Physics Program at the University of Alabama–Birmingham; Amir A. Bahadori, associate professor at Kansas State University; and Shaheen A. Dewji, assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
C. L. Schuske, D. Dickinson, S. J. Altschuler
Nuclear Technology | Volume 23 | Number 2 | August 1974 | Pages 157-176
Chemical Processing | Nuclear Safeguards (Presented at November 1973 Meeting) | doi.org/10.13182/NT74-A31449
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Models for the safe and economical storage of large quantities of plutonium or highly enriched uranium have been developed. The models cover a wide range of compositions from aqueous solutions, wet and dry oxides, to full density metals. The models all use the parameters of unit surface-to-volume ratio and array surface density to define the safe storage arrays. The models take account of unit shape, size, and composition, as well as vault size. Arrays containing a mixture of different units are easy to calculate by the model. Important accident situations, such as double batching and fissile solution spills, are considered.