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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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Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
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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NRC engineers share their expertise at the University of Puerto Rico
Robert Roche-Rivera and Marcos Rolón-Acevedo are licensed professional engineers who work at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. They are also alumni of the University of Puerto Rico–Mayagüez (UPRM) and have been sharing their knowledge and experience with students at their alma mater since last year, serving as adjunct professors in the university’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. During the 2023–2024 school year, they each taught two courses: Fundamentals of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and Nuclear Power Plant Engineering.
Advances in Nuclear Nonproliferation Technology and Policy Conference (ANTPC 2023)
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 15, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EST|Lincoln West
Session Chair:
Patrick Moosir (Sandia)
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Bridging the Fidelity Gap in System-Scale Nuclear Fuel Cycle Simulations for Realistic State-Level Nuclear Material Accounting
10:00–10:20AM EST
Kathryn A. Mummah (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Paper
Monte Carlo Based Sample Optimization for Microcalorimeter Decay Energy Spectroscopy
10:20–10:40AM EST
Sophie Weidenbenner (Oregon State), Camille Palmer (Oregon State), Mark Croce (LANL), Katrina E. Koehler (LANL), Daniel McNeel (LANL), Timothy Ockrin (LANL), Katherine Schreiber (LANL), Rico Schoenemann (LANL), Matthew Carpenter (LANL), Ryan Fitzgerald (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Anomaly Detection in Gamma Source Search Spectra with Hopfield Neural Network on Quantum Computer Simulator
10:40–11:00AM EST
Luis Valdez (Univ. Texas, San Antonio), Miltos Alamaniotis (Univ. Texas, San Antonio), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
Optimizing a Neutron Multiplicity Counter Using Design of Experiments Methods
11:00–11:20AM EST
Rachel C. Connick (LANL), Nikolas D. Economy (LANL), John A. Corder (TAMU), Sarah E. Sarnoski (LANL), Rollin E. Lakis (LANL)
Development of Reactor Physics Models for Generating a Surrogate Model for the ISU AGN-201 Digital
11:20–11:40AM EST
Quinton Williams (Oregon State), Ryan Stewart (INL), Chad Pope (Idaho State), Camille Palmer (Oregon State), Todd Palmer (Oregon State), Ashley Shields (INL), John Darrington (INL), Mark Schanfein (INL), Gustavo Reyes (INL), Christopher Ritter (INL)
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