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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.
Y. Kirihara, M. Hagiwara, H. Iwase, S. Ban, T. Itoga, T. Nakamura
Nuclear Technology | Volume 168 | Number 3 | December 2009 | Pages 773-779
MC Calculations | 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-A9305
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We performed a systematic benchmark study of several Monte Carlo codes for neutron deep penetration experiments at 0 deg, which were previously performed using 40-, 65-, and 137-MeV quasi-monoenergetic neutrons and using continuous-energy neutrons up to 400 MeV. Neutron energy spectra behind shields and the attenuation lengths of the neutron flux are compared between the experiments and the calculations. All calculations generally well reproduce the energy spectra and the attenuation lengths measured in the experiments. The attenuation length obtained as a function of the incident neutron energy in this study rapidly increases with the incident energy.