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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.
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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Twas the night before Christmas when all through the houseNo electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged in by the chimney with careWith the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
Decommissioning Environmental Science and Remote Technology 2021
Technical Session
Friday, December 3, 2021|8:00–9:45AM EST |Georgetown West
Session Chairs:
Leonel E. Lagos
Sungmoon Joo
Brian O'Neil (LANL)
Session Organizer:
Young Soo Park
Student Assistant:
Tri Nguyen
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Multi-Agent-Based Wall-Climbing Robot System for Safety Inspection of Nuclear Power Plant
8:05–8:25AM EST
Young-woon Song (Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology), Jungill Kang (Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology), Taesik Kim (Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology), Son-Cheol Yu (Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology)
Paper
Development of an In-Water Light-Duty Robot for Use in the Decommissioning of the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants
8:25–8:45AM EST
Shinji Kawatsuma (National Institute of Technology, Fukushima College), Shigekazu Suzuki (National Institute of Technology, Fukushima College)
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MATLAB-Based 3D Virtual Manipulator Simulator for Remote Dismantling of Nuclear Reactor
8:45–9:05AM EST
Hamza Khan (Pusan National Univ.), Jin Won Lee (Pusan National Univ.), Min Cheol Lee (Pusan National Univ.), Seokyoung Ahn (Pusan National Univ.), Suh Jeong (Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials), Dae-Won Cho (Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials)
Preliminary Study on Point Cloud-Based Object Pose Estimation in Robotic Nuclear Decommissioning Applications
9:05–9:25AM EST
Sungmoon Joo (KAERI), Hogeon Seo (KAERI)
A Cooperative Unmanned Disaster Responding System at KAERI
9:25–9:45AM EST
Dongseok Ryu (KAERI), Youngsoo Choi (KAERI)
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