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Isotopes & Radiation
Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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Hinkley Point C gets over $6 billion in financing from Apollo
U.S.-based private capital group Apollo Global has committed £4.5 billion ($6.13 billion) in financing to EDF Energy, primarily to support the U.K.’s Hinkley Point C station. The move addresses funding needs left unmet since China General Nuclear Power Corporation—which originally planned to pay for one-third of the project—exited in 2023 amid U.K. government efforts to reduce Chinese involvement.
Guoxiu Qin, Qinghua Yang, Jiarui Cui, Honggang Pan, Liangliang Pan, Fan Li
Nuclear Technology | Volume 209 | Number 5 | May 2023 | Pages 707-715
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2022.2151824
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In this study, an airborne radioactivity survey (ARS) system based on an unmanned helicopter platform was designed to satisfy the requirements of geological exploration and environmental radiation monitoring under complex environmental conditions. The system is composed of an unmanned aerial vehicle platform, airborne equipment, and a ground control station, with both NaI(Tl) and CeBr3 crystals as detectors to meet the energy resolution and detection efficiency requirements of airborne radioactivity measurement. The designed ARS system is stable and reliable through the field flight test, and the measurement results are consistent with the existing data and can be widely used in fields such as large-scale uranium resource exploration, nuclear accident emergency monitoring, and environmental radiation investigation.
