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The division provides a forum for focused technical dialogue on thermal hydraulic technology in the nuclear industry. Specifically, this will include heat transfer and fluid mechanics involved in the utilization of nuclear energy. It is intended to attract the highest quality of theoretical and experimental work to ANS, including research on basic phenomena and application to nuclear system design.
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Commercial nuclear innovation "new space" age
In early 2006, a start-up company launched a small rocket from a tiny island in the Pacific. It exploded, showering the island with debris. A year later, a second launch attempt sent a rocket to space but failed to make orbit, burning up in the atmosphere. Another year brought a third attempt—and a third failure. The following month, in September 2008, the company used the last of its funds to launch a fourth rocket. It reached orbit, making history as the first privately funded liquid-fueled rocket to do so.
Alexandra Knapp, Torsten Radon, Karsten Vogt, Georg Fehrenbacher
Nuclear Technology | Volume 168 | Number 2 | November 2009 | Pages 487-491
Shielding | Special Issue on the 11th International Conference on Radiation Shielding and the 15th Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division (Part 2) / Radiation Protection | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A9230
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In the next years the Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung and international partners will realize the new international accelerator Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) for research with heavy ions, radioactive ions, and antiprotons. Two important storage rings of FAIR are the collector ring (CR) and the recycled experimental storage ring (RESR), which are located together in the same building: The CR is optimized for fast cooling of heavy ions and antiprotons, while the RESR is mainly used for accumulation of antiprotons.The concrete shielding for the CR and RESR is presented on the basis of several Monte Carlo simulations for radiation transport with the latest version of the FLUKA code. Extensive shielding calculations had to be done because of diverse beam types including different locations of beam losses. The goal of the simulations is to reveal possible weak points in the shielding and to ensure a dose rate outside the storage rings and in the technical supplies' room to a value of <0.5 Sv/h so that this area is accessible without any restrictions.