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A webinar, and a new opportunity to take ANS’s CNP Exam
Applications are now open for the fall 2025 testing period for the American Nuclear Society’s Certified Nuclear Professional (CNP) exam. Applications are being accepted through October 14, and only three testing sessions are offered per year, so it is important to apply soon. The test will be administered from November 12 through December 16. To check eligibility and schedule your exam, click here.
In addition, taking place tomorrow (September 19) from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. (CDT), ANS will host a new webinar, “How to Become a Certified Nuclear Professional.” More information is available below in this article.
Isao Murata, Shigeo Yoshida, Noriyuki Saito, Akito Takahashi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 997-1001
Neutronics Experiments and Analysis (Poster Session) | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963743
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Secondary gamma-ray skyshine has been measured at an intense 14 MeV neutron source facility with a Hp-Ge detector used to investigate this mechanism. Many discrete gamma-rays due to (n, γ) reactions were observed in the spectrum. It was confirmed that in the evaluation of the secondary gamma-ray skyshine, a precise spectrum calculation down to thermal neutron is indispensable. On the other hand, there exists only a continuum spectrum up to 8 MeV with no discrete peaks in the real skyshine spectrum from the upper air. It was found that the continuum spectrum is composed of mainly Compton scattered gamma-rays. In the distance dependency measurement, the real skyshine contribution showed slow attenuation compared with the whole skyshine contribution. This means that with increasing distance from the facility the real skyshine contribution is gradually dominant, namely, it becomes more important in the skyshine evaluation.