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Radiation Protection & Shielding
The Radiation Protection and Shielding Division is developing and promoting radiation protection and shielding aspects of nuclear science and technology — including interaction of nuclear radiation with materials and biological systems, instruments and techniques for the measurement of nuclear radiation fields, and radiation shield design and evaluation.
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2021 ANS Winter Meeting and Technology Expo
November 30–December 3, 2021
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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ANS Winter Meeting: Addressing the spent fuel dilemma
The President’s Special Session at the 2021 ANS Winter Meeting and Technology Expo, held Thursday morning, explored the current impasse over the management of spent nuclear fuel in the United States, with leaders from Congress and representatives from the Department of Energy and the U.S. Government Accountability Office sharing the work they are doing in an effort to break that impasse.
Bader Almutairi (Missouri S&T, Kuwait Inst. Sci. Res.), Dinesh Kumar (FAEC, Uppsala Univ.), Tuhfatur Ridwan (Cambridge), Syed Bahauddin Alam (FAEC, Rhode Island Nucl. Sci. Centre), Geoff Parks (Cambrige), Cameron S. Goodwin (Rhode Island Nucl. Sci. Centre), Shoaib Usman (Missouri S&T)
Transactions | Volume 120 | Number 1 | June 2019 | Pages 875-878
