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Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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Disney World should have gone nuclear
There is extra significance to the American Nuclear Society holding its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, this past week. That’s because in 1967, the state of Florida passed a law allowing Disney World to build a nuclear power plant.
Technical Session|Sponsored by FCWMD
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|4:30–6:15PM EDT
Session Chair:
Christina Leggett (Booz Allen Hamilton)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Benjamin B. Cipiti (Sandia National Laboratories)
Staff Producer:
Mich Leana (ANS)
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Elastic Waveform Tomography of Spent Nuclear Fuel Casks
Othman Oudghiri-Idrissi (Univ. of Minnesota), Mohammad HanifehZadeh (Univ. of Southern California), Bora E. Gencturk (Univ. of Southern California), Roger G. Ghanem (Univ. of Southern California), Bojan B. Guzina (Univ. of Minnesota)
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Oxalic Acid Dissolution System for Mercury Recovery Process Optimization
Michael Smith (Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte), Sven Bader (Orano Federal Services), Thomas Koch (Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte), Arthur Niemoller (Orano Federal Services), Andrew Straight (Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte)
SMR Gadolinia Burnable Absorber Loading Design in a No-Onsite Refueling Core Neutronics Performance Assessment
Gray Chang (JFoster and Associates), Julie Foster (JFoster and Associates), Jim Harrell (Zachry Nuclear), Mie Hiruta (JFoster & Assoc.)
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Comparison of Desiccation Cracks between Bentonite and Inorganic Microfiber Reinforced Bentonite for Engineered Barrier System
Yuan Feng (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln), Jongwan Eun (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln), Seunghee Kim (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln), Yong-Rak Kim (Texas A&M Univ.)
Development of a Heat Signature Computational Simulation for Safeguarded Spent Nuclear Fuel
Alvaro Pizarro-Vallejos (Univ. of Illinois Urbana Champaign), Michael D. Kaminski (ANL), Jeffrey Fortner (ANL)
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