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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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The U.S. Million Person Study of Low-Dose-Rate Health Effects
There is a critical knowledge gap regarding the health consequences of exposure to radiation received gradually over time. While there is a plethora of studies on the risks of adverse outcomes from both acute and high-dose exposures, including the landmark study of atomic bomb survivors, these are not characteristic of the chronic exposure to low-dose radiation encountered in occupational and public settings. In addition, smaller cohorts have limited numbers leading to reduced statistical power.
Rasito Tursinah, Sidik Permana, Zaki Su’ud, Alan Maulana, Putu Sukmabuana
Nuclear Technology | Volume 211 | Number 4 | April 2025 | Pages 635-644
Review Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2024.2361177
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The single-moderator neutron spectrometer is the result of developments in multisphere neutron spectrometer design. Multisphere is a multimoderator-based neutron spectrometer technique to measure the neutron spectrum with the most comprehensive energy range from electron-volt to gigaelectron-volt. Developing a multisphere into a single moderator aims to obtain a more practical device with regard to mobility and measurement techniques. We also review the layered-moderator design, a multisphere development with a single detector.
This paper ends with a review of the development of single-moderator designs with multidetectors, with regard to the various forms of moderators, types of detectors used, and validation results of each model. The development of the single-moderator neutron spectrometer in the geometric aspect of the moderator produces two dominant moderator shapes: spherical and cylindrical. The spherical shape is applied to measure the multidirectional neutron beam, while the cylindrical shape is used for the monodirectional beam. Validation results of 2.5% to 3.2% on single-sphere designs and 2% to 8% on single-cylindrical designs indicate that the developed single-moderate neutron spectrometer designs can replace multisphere-type spectrometers.