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Nuclear Installations Safety
Devoted specifically to the safety of nuclear installations and the health and safety of the public, this division seeks a better understanding of the role of safety in the design, construction and operation of nuclear installation facilities. The division also promotes engineering and scientific technology advancement associated with the safety of such facilities.
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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Feinstein Institutes to research novel radiation countermeasure
The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, home of the research institutes of New York’s Northwell Health, announced it has received a five-year, $2.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the potential of human ghrelin, a naturally occurring hormone, as a medical countermeasure against radiation-induced gastrointestinal syndrome (GI-ARS).
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Tuesday, November 15, 2022|10:00–11:45AM MST|Sonoran 7
Session Chair:
Zeyun Wu (VCU)
Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni (UC Berkeley)
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Verification of Diffusion Solver with Equivalent Transport Factors on PWR Assembly Models
10:00–10:20AM MST
Muhammad Rizki Oktavian (Purdue), Oscar Lastres (Purdue), Yunlin Xu (Purdue)
Paper
Discrete Element Method Investigation of Reflector Dimples for a General Pebble Bed Reactor Design
10:20–10:40AM MST
David Reger (Penn State), Paolo Balestra (INL), Ryan Stewart (INL), Gerhard Strydom (INL), Elia Merzari (Penn State)
Application of Two-Node Discontinuity Factor for Improving Accuracy of Nodal Calculation
10:40–11:00AM MST
HwanYeal Yu (KEPCO Nuclear Fuel), Joo-Ill Yoon (KEPCO Nuclear Fuel)
Real Variance Estimation in the iDTMC-Based Depletion Analysis Using Correlated Sampling
11:00–11:20AM MST
Inyup Kim (KAIST), Inhyung Kim (Univ. California, Berkeley), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
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