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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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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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NRC okays construction permits for Hermes 2 test facility
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced yesterday that it has directed staff to issue construction permits to Kairos Power for the company's proposed Hermes 2 nonpower test reactor facility to be built at the Heritage Center Industrial Park in Oak Ridge, Tenn. The permits authorize Kairos to build a facility with two 35-MWt test reactors that would use molten salt to cool the reactor cores.
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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