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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.
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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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Three nations, three ways to recycle plastic waste with nuclear technology
Plastic waste pollutes oceans, streams, and bloodstreams. Nations in Asia and the Pacific are working with the International Atomic Energy Agency through the Nuclear Technology for Controlling Plastic Pollution (NUTEC Plastics) initiative to tackle the problem. Launched in 2020, NUTEC Plastics is focused on using nuclear technology to both track the flow of microplastics and improve upstream plastic recycling before discarded plastic can enter the ecosystem. Irradiation could target hard-to-recycle plastics and the development of bio-based plastics, offering sustainable alternatives to conventional plastic products and building a “circular economy” for plastics, according to the IAEA.
R. M. Versluis, A. J. Mockel
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 58 | Number 1 | September 1975 | Pages 75-88
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A26768
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In this paper an improved degenerate kernel is obtained and subsequently used instead of the exact thermalization kernel for the calculation of thermal-neutron densities in a heterogeneous reactor lattice.The degenerate kernel is composed of a number of functions, some of which are obtained by conserving speed moments of the kernel while the remaining functions are chosen so as to reproduce scattering probabilities involving epithermal energies. The degenerate kernel satisfies the detailed balance strictly and, as opposed to conventional degenerate kernels, shows the desirable feature of improved accuracy when the number of terms in the degenerate kernel is increased.This degenerate kernel is employed to compute thermal-neutron spectra in cylindricized unit cells by solving the integral transport equation for the scalar neutron density. For this purpose the DESMOS code was developed. The results of these calculations are compared with the analogous THERMOS code results. DESMOS proves to be accurate and its speed of execution compares favorably with that of THERMOS.
