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Reflections on NOW
Hash Hasemianpresident@ans.org
Last month, I talked about my goal of strengthening ANS’s voice, in part by attending three conferences. I have now checked the first event off that list: the Nuclear Opportunities Workshop.
This year, NOW took another step in outgrowing its “workshop” moniker and transitioning to a full-fledged regional conference and expo. What started only a few years ago as a small gathering in Oak Ridge, Tenn., with roughly 50 attendees has skyrocketed to an event with 1,100 people in attendance in Knoxville.
NOW’s popularity reflected how busy the roughly 350 nuclear companies in Tennessee have been in recent years. There is significant work going on surrounding Gen IV reactor development and deployment, advancements in new nuclear fuels, and defense-related builds like the Uranium Processing Facility.
Atsuhiko M. Sukegawa, Koichi Okuno, Shinji Sakurai
Nuclear Technology | Volume 168 | Number 2 | November 2009 | Pages 553-558
Shielding Materials | 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-A9242
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Three kinds of unique high-heat-resistant neutron shielding resins have been developed. One is an excellent resin in terms of light weight. Another is a high-neutron-shielding-performance resin with a heat-proof temperature of 200°C. The third is a resin improved up to a heat-proof temperature of 300°C. The neutron shielding performance of the resins was carried out using a 252Cf neutron source. The results show that the shielding performance of the resin with a heat-proof temperature of 200°C is better than the neutron shielding resins with heat-proof temperatures up to 200°C. And, the performance of the resin with a heat-proof temperature up to 300°C is almost the same as that of polyethylene. It can be concluded that high-heat-resistant resin is attractive as the neutron shielding material in a high-temperature environment.
