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Division Spotlight
Education, Training & Workforce Development
The Education, Training & Workforce Development Division provides communication among the academic, industrial, and governmental communities through the exchange of views and information on matters related to education, training and workforce development in nuclear and radiological science, engineering, and technology. Industry leaders, education and training professionals, and interested students work together through Society-sponsored meetings and publications, to enrich their professional development, to educate the general public, and to advance nuclear and radiological science and engineering.
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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Latest News
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).
International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference
Technical Session
Thursday, November 17, 2022|8:00–9:45AM MST|Kaibab
Session Chair:
Styliani Pantopoulou (Purdue)
Alternate Chair:
Sven Bader (Orano)
Session Organizer:
Brady D. Hanson
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Using Cosmic Ray Muons to Assess Geological Characteristics in the Subsurface
8:00–8:20AM MST
H.R. Gadey (PNNL), R. Howard (PNNL), S.C. Tognini (ORNL), J.L. Meszaros (ORNL), R. Montgomery (ORNL), S. Chatzidakis (Purdue), J. Bae (Purdue), R. Clark (U.S. Dept. of Energy)
Paper
Frequency Response Function Based Damage Detection of Spent Nuclear Fuel Canisters
8:20–8:40AM MST
Mehrdad Aghagholizadeh (Univ. Southern California), Bora Gencturk (Univ. Southern California), Roger Ghanem (Univ. Southern California), Anna Arcaro (Univ. Southern California)
Fusion of Distributed Fiber Optics, Acoustic NDE for Spent Fuel Monitoring Towards Physics-Informed Machine Learning
8:40–9:00AM MST
Pengdi Zhang (Univ. Pittsburgh), Abhishek Venketeswaran (National Energy Technology Laboratory), Ruishu F. Wright (National Energy Technology Laboratory), Ryan M. Meyer (PNNL), Paul R. Ohodnicki (Univ. Pittsburgh)
Monitoring Spent Nuclear Fuel in a Dry Cask Using Momentum Integrated Muon Scattering Tomography
9:00–9:20AM MST
Junghyun Bae (Purdue), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue)
Remote Area Modular Monitoring for Nuclear Facilities
9:20–9:40AM MST
B. Craig (ANL), K. Byrne (ANL), Y.Y. Liu (ANL), M. Hoover (Embedded Planet)
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