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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Energy Secretary to speak at the 2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
In less than two weeks, the American Nuclear Society’s second annual conference of the year, the 2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo, will come to Washington, D.C.
Today, ANS is announcing that Energy Secretary Chris Wright will be joining the list of nuclear leaders slated to speak at the conference.
Click here to register for the meeting, which will take place November 9–12 in Washington, D.C., at the Washington Hilton. Be sure to do so before November 7 to take advantage of priority pricing.
Norman A. Frigerio, Leo L. LaVoy
Nuclear Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | March 1971 | Pages 322-324
Technical Paper | Shielding | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A30965
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The preparation and properties of LiPb are described, and its use suggested for neutron shields, collimators, filters, and antiscatter grids where gamma contamination must be kept at a minimum. The material is relatively inexpensive, easily handled and fabricated, and stable in air at temperatures over 200°C and in neutron fluxes of the order of 1012 n/(cm2 sec).
