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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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Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
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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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NRC engineers share their expertise at the University of Puerto Rico
Robert Roche-Rivera and Marcos Rolón-Acevedo are licensed professional engineers who work at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. They are also alumni of the University of Puerto Rico–Mayagüez (UPRM) and have been sharing their knowledge and experience with students at their alma mater since last year, serving as adjunct professors in the university’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. During the 2023–2024 school year, they each taught two courses: Fundamentals of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and Nuclear Power Plant Engineering.
Technical Session|Sponsored by OPD
Wednesday, June 15, 2022|8:00–9:45AM PDT|San Simeon A
Session Chair:
Tim Crook (MCR Performance Solutions)
Session Organizer:
W. Neal Mann (ANL)
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Development of Principal Design Criteria of the Fast Modular Reactor
Chun Fu (General Atomics), Hangbok Choi (General Atomics), John Bolin (General Atomics)
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A Simple Program to Estimate the Fast Modular Reactor Steady-State Closed Brayton Cycle Operating Parameters
Chun Fu (General Atomics), Matthew Virgen (General Atomics), Hangbok Choi (General Atomics), Robert W. Schleicher (General Atomics), John Bolin (General Atomics)
Thermal-Fluidic Safety Related Phenomena Identification for Horizontally Oriented Micro-HTGRs
T-Ying Lin (Kansas State), Hitesh Bindra (Kansas State), Piyush Sabharwall (INL), Richard Schultz (Idaho State), Masahiro Kawaji (City College of New York), Donald E. McEligot (Kansas State)
MELCOR Model Development of the General Atomics Fast Modular Reactor
Cole Dunbar (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Jun Wang (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), WooHyun Jung (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Michael Corradini (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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