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Human Factors, Instrumentation & Controls
Improving task performance, system reliability, system and personnel safety, efficiency, and effectiveness are the division's main objectives. Its major areas of interest include task design, procedures, training, instrument and control layout and placement, stress control, anthropometrics, psychological input, and motivation.
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Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
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Missouri radioisotope producer MURR joins European nuclear medicine group
The University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR) is the latest member of Nuclear Medicine Europe, an industry association for the radiopharmaceutical and molecular imaging industry in Europe, the University of Missouri announced July 17.
James W. Butler, M. Grotenhuis
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 3 | Number 1 | January 1958 | Pages 47-51
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE58-A25445
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
This paper presents a brief study of fission product gamma-ray power as a function of time after shutdown for periodic reactor operation as compared to constant power operation. The basic decay formula of Way and Wigner is used.