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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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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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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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Pacific Fusion: Fusing pulser innovation with General Atomics’ expertise
Pacific Fusion has a staff that knows its way around pulsers and inertial fusion, and an ongoing collaboration with General Atomics. Today, the two companies are announcing plans to test Pacific Fusion’s pulser-driven inertial fusion energy concept, with commercial fusion power as the goal.
“We are building a fusion machine and testing all equipment—including components and a pulser module—at our Pacific Fusion test center,” Pacific Fusion cofounder and chief technology officer Keith LeChien told Nuclear News. “GA’s engineering expertise remains an important part of our progress, and we expect this collaboration to continue through future phases of development.”
Technical Session
Friday, April 9, 2021|2:30–4:30PM EDT
Session Chair:
Khadija Mahbuba (NCSU)
Alternate Chair:
Ishita Trivedi
Session Organizer:
Edward Chen (NCSU)
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Quentin Faure (NCSU)
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A Review of Risk Assessment of a Dry Cask Storage System
Havva Tayfur (NC State Univ.), Alp Tezbasaran (North Carolina State University), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (North Carolina State University)
Paper
Fast Neutron Interrogation for Spent Nuclear Fuel Dry Storage Cask Monitoring
Zhihua Liu (UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS), Ming Fang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Angela D. Fulvio (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
An Elastic Waveform Tomography of Spent Nuclear Fuel Casks
Othman Oudghiri-Idrissi (University of Minnesota), Bojan B. Guzina (University of Minnesota Twin Cities)
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