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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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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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NRC okays construction permits for Hermes 2 test facility
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced yesterday that it has directed staff to issue construction permits to Kairos Power for the company's proposed Hermes 2 nonpower test reactor facility to be built at the Heritage Center Industrial Park in Oak Ridge, Tenn. The permits authorize Kairos to build a facility with two 35-MWt test reactors that would use molten salt to cool the reactor cores.
Technical Session|Sponsored by IRD
Tuesday, November 15, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Sonoran 1
Session Chair:
Jung Rim
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Hyoung K. Lee
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Design for Safeguards -- Detector Array for Locating Isolated Radioactive Source
1:00–1:20PM MST
Bahram Nassersharif (Univ. Rhode Island), Michael Peters (Univ. Rhode Island), Carlos Casanova (Univ. Rhode Island), Jacqueline Schings (Univ. Rhode Island), Cameron Lavoie (Univ. Rhode Island), Cameron S. Goodwin (Rhode Island Nuclear Science Center)
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Space-Dependent Calculation of the Multiplicity Moments with Scattering
1:20–1:40PM MST
Imre Pázsit (Chalmers Univ. Technology), Victor Dykin (Chalmers Univ. Technology)
Metaheuristics Design of an Energy Tuning Assembly to Replace AmLi Source Within Active Well Coincidence Counter (AWCC)
1:40–2:00PM MST
Austin Williams (Univ. Tennessee., Knoxville), Sandra Bogetic (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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