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Nicholas Tsoulfanidis—ANS member since 1969
As an undergraduate I studied physics at the University of Athens. I entered the university in 1955 after successfully passing a national exam (came up fourth in a field of about 700 candidates). Upon graduation and finishing my mandatory two-year military service, the plan was to teach physics either in a public high school or as a tutor for a private for-profit institution, preparing high school students for the national exam.
Oyeon Kum, Seung Uk Heo, Sang Hyoun Choi, Yongkeun Song, Sung-Ho Cho
Nuclear Technology | Volume 192 | Number 3 | December 2015 | Pages 208-214
Technical Paper | Accelerators | doi.org/10.13182/NT14-121
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Because of the encouraging results obtained at worldwide heavy-ion therapy facilities, the first hospital-based heavy-ion accelerator therapy facility is under construction in Busan, Korea, at the Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences. The compact accelerator will deliver beams of heavy ions, specifically carbon ions of energy 430 MeV/u. This study focuses on radiation protection aspects concerning materials activation and facility shielding. Radiation shielding was evaluated with two different Monte Carlo codes (MCNPX and FLUKA), and materials activation studies were performed using FLUKA and a combination of MCNPX+CINDER’90 codes.
