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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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The Frisch-Peierls memorandum: A seminal document of nuclear history
The Manhattan Project is usually considered to have been initiated with Albert Einstein’s letter to President Franklin Roosevelt in October 1939. However, a lesser-known document that was just as impactful on wartime nuclear history was the so-called Frisch-Peierls memorandum. Prepared by two refugee physicists at the University of Birmingham in Britain in early 1940, this manuscript was the first technical description of nuclear weapons and their military, strategic, and ethical implications to reach high-level government officials on either side of the Atlantic. The memorandum triggered the initiation of the British wartime nuclear program, which later merged with the Manhattan Engineer District.
Radiation Protection and Shielding Division 2024 (RPSD 2024)
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 20, 2024|1:00–2:45PM EST|Longboat 1
Session Chairs:
Luis Ocampo Giraldo
Mauritius Hiller (RadCon)
Session Organizer:
Mathieu Dupont
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Radiation Dose Impact of an Overpack Storage Configuration for Plutonium Disposition
1:00–1:20PM EST
R. Blake Wilkerson (ORNL), Douglas E. Peplow (ORNL), Deanna Stimac (SRNL), Arzu Alpan (ORNL), Keith C. Bledsoe (ORNL), Robert E. Grove (ORNL)
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Interpolating Transported Flux Spectra from Monoenergetic Sources
1:20–1:40PM EST
Douglas E. Peplow (ORNL), Mathew W. Swinney (ORNL)
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Nontraditional Sensors for Aqueous Separation Research and Workforce Development
1:40–2:00PM EST
Luis A. Ocampo Giraldo (INL), Edna S. Cardenas (INL), Jay D. Hix (INL), James T. Johnson (INL), Cody M. Walker (INL), Kevin Lyon (INL)
Radiation Hot Spot Seasonal Variation on UF6 Cylinders
2:00–2:20PM EST
Brandon A. Wilson (ORNL), Douglas E. Peplow (ORNL), Keith C. Bledsoe (ORNL), Nathan D. See (ORNL), Ean S. Arnold (PNNL), Staci M. Herman (PNNL), Evan Warzecha (PNNL), Derrick R. Seiner (PNNL), Glenn A. Fugate (ORNL)
Shielding an Infrasound Sensor for INL's Fuel Conditioning Facility
2:20–2:40PM EST
Marcellus Boykin (Georgia Tech), Luis Ocampo Giraldo (INL)
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