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Radiation Protection & Shielding
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 RPD
Monday, November 13, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EST|Gunston East/West
Session Chair:
Guillaume Giudicelli (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Nathan J. Roskoff
Session Organizer:
Massimiliano Fratoni (UCB)
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Latest Improvements to the Hyper-Fidelity Depletion Methodology for Pebble Bed Reactors
3:15–3:35PM EST
Yves Robert (Univ. California, Berkeley), Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Paper
Modeling the HTR-10 at Start-Up and Equilibrium in OpenMC
3:35–3:55PM EST
Donald L. Doyle (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Two-Batch Fuel Reshuffling Strategy for a Horizontal Compact High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor
3:55–4:15PM EST
Lorenzo Mazzocco (MIT), Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
Exploratory Analysis of Parametric Dependencies in Molten Salt Reactor Design Domains
4:15–4:35PM EST
James Passmore (TAMU), Dahvien Dean (TAMU), Pavel V. Tsvetkov (TAMU)
Initial Benchmark Comparisons of KENO-IV and MPACT for MSRR Criticality Evaluations
4:35–4:55PM EST
Kyle J. Luna (Univ. Texas, Austin), Benjamin Collins (Univ. Texas, Austin), Nicholas F. Herring (Univ. Texas, Austin), Kevin T. Clarno (Univ. Texas, Austin)
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