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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
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Dragonfly, a Pu-fueled drone heading to Titan, gets key NASA approval
Curiosity landed on Mars sporting a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) in 2012, and a second NASA rover, Perseverance, landed in 2021. Both are still rolling across the red planet in the name of science. Another exploratory craft with a similar plutonium-238–fueled RTG but a very different mission—to fly between multiple test sites on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon—recently got one step closer to deployment.
On April 25, NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) announced that the Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s icy moon passed its critical design review. “Passing this mission milestone means that Dragonfly’s mission design, fabrication, integration, and test plans are all approved, and the mission can now turn its attention to the construction of the spacecraft itself,” according to NASA.
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Accelerators | Special Issue on the 11th International Conference on Radiation Shielding and the 15th Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division (PART 3) / Radiation Protection | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A9288
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A beam loss monitoring (BLM) system for a linear accelerator (LINAC) and booster has been designed and implemented at the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, which is under construction. It is a distributed system, constructed with 54 detectors, 11 data collectors, and a console personal computer. Several experiments were made at the National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory to verify the performance of this system, and one comparison experiment with thermoluminescent dosimeters for dose rate measurement was also done. From preliminary experiments and commissioning, this BLM system is proving to be functional and a useful tool to study the machine status. Moreover, it is hoped that this can be developed into a new method to measure the radiation dose distribution around the LINAC and booster directly, which would help the shielding calculation for future facilities, although more quantitative experiments are needed.
