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Isotopes & Radiation
Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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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
Standards Program
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Pacific Fusion predicts “1,000-fold leap” in performance, net facility gain by 2030
Inertial fusion energy (IFE) developer Pacific Fusion, based in Fremont, Calif., announced this morning that it is on target to achieve net facility gain—more fusion energy out than all energy stored in the system—with a demonstration system by 2030, and backs the claim with a technical paper published yesterday on arXiv: “Affordable, manageable, practical, and scalable (AMPS) high-yield and high-gain inertial fusion.”
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPSD
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|4:50–6:30PM EST
Session Chair:
Igor Remec
Alternate Chair:
Irina I. Popova
Session Organizer:
Staff Producer:
Julie Bry (American Nuclear Society)
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Supplemental Shielding for the Advanced Photon Source Upgrade Particle Accumulator Ring
Uli Wienands (Argonne National Laboratory), Chih-yuan Yao (Argonne National Laboratory), Kent Wootton (Argonne National Laboratory), Bradley J. Micklich (Argonne National Laboratory), Stanley Wiedmeyer (Argonne National Laboratory), John Vacca (Argonne National Laboratory), Greg Fystro (Argonne National Laboratory), Victor Guarino (Argonne National Laboratory), Jeffrey Dooling (Argonne National Laboratory), Glenn Decker (Argonne National Laboratory), Joseph Calvey (Argonne National Laboratory), Michael Borland (Argonne National Laboratory), Katherine Harkay (Argonne National Laboratory)
Paper
A Fundamental Study on the Calculation Environment for Radiation Shielding Design of Accelerator Facilities
Nobuo Ikeda (Kyusyu University), Nobuhiro Shigyo (Kyusyu University), Ken-ichi Kimura (Fujita Corporation)
DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF THE SHIELDING OF AN ACCELERATOR DRIVEN THORIUM-FUELED MOLTEN SALT LOOP USING MCNP6
Yassin A. Hassan (Texas A&M University), Rodolfo Vaghetto (Texas A&M University), Se R. Yang (Texas A&M University), Luay Alawneh (Texas A&M University), Eman H. Alsmadi (Texas A&M University)
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