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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.
Meeting Spotlight
Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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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Latest News
Feinstein Institutes to research novel radiation countermeasure
The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, home of the research institutes of New York’s Northwell Health, announced it has received a five-year, $2.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the potential of human ghrelin, a naturally occurring hormone, as a medical countermeasure against radiation-induced gastrointestinal syndrome (GI-ARS).
Technical Session
Wednesday, October 6, 2021|10:40AM–12:20PM EDT
Session Chair:
Brendan Kochunas (Univ. of Michigan)
Session Organizers:
Benoit Forget (MIT)
William Wieselquist (ORNL)
Student Producer:
K. Lisa Reed (Georgia Tech)
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Preliminary Implementation and Application of an Electrical Equivalent Circuit for Neutron Diffusion Modeling
10:40–11:05AM EDT
Naiki Kaffezakis (Georgia Institute of Technology), Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Paper
Preliminary Investigation of Arbitrary CAD Geometry and Unstructured Mesh With 2D Method of Characteristics in MPACT
11:05–11:30AM EDT
Kyle Vaughn (Univ. of Michigan), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. of Michigan)
Development of Estimation Method for Prompt Neutron Decay Constant Using Dynamic Mode Decomposition
11:30–11:55AM EDT
Fuga Nishioka (Nagoya Univ.), Yuhei Fukui (Nagoya Univ.), Tomohiro Endo (Nagoya Univ.), Akio Yamamoto (Nagoya Univ.), Masao Yamanaka (Kyoto Univ.), Cheol Ho Pyeon (Kyoto Univ.)
A Transport Corrected SP3 Solver Development with Nodal Expansion Method
11:55AM–12:20PM EDT
Yuchao Xu (NC State Univ.), Jason Hou (NC State Univ.), Kostadin Ivanov (NC State Univ.)
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