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November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Supplier Showcase focus: Reducing cumulative radiological exposure
The American Nuclear Society is hosting a new Supplier Showcase webinar, “Reducing Cumulative Radiological Exposure with Advanced Source Term Removal Technologies,” on October 15 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. (EDT) on recent advancements in decontamination technology.
The webinar is free for all viewers and requires registration.
Theresa Cutler, Kelsey Amundson, Jesson Hutchinson, Nick Thompson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 7 | July 2023 | Pages 1331-1355
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2022.2159293
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The International Handbook of Evaluated Criticality Safety Benchmark Experiments includes thousands of criticality safety benchmark configurations that have been collected since the early 1990s. Their quality and uncertainty analysis have greatly expanded over the years, as computer codes have also expanded and accelerated. Along with the increase in effort required for benchmarks today, the cost of performing experiments has also gone up. This paper evaluates plutonium fast metal and highly enriched uranium fast metal experiments for their major uncertainty contributions and identifies where to focus efforts in future experiment design.