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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
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Save the VTR!
On his blog, Neutron Bytes, ANS member Dan Yurman lays out two proposals for saving the Versatile Test Reactor.
The Department of Energy has plans to build the VTR at Idaho National Laboratory, but federal funding for the project may have dried up.
Yimeng Chan, Sicong Xiao (National Univ. Singapore)
Transactions | Volume 121 | Number 1 | November 2019 | Pages 788-791
