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The Radiation Protection and Shielding Division is developing and promoting radiation protection and shielding aspects of nuclear science and technology — including interaction of nuclear radiation with materials and biological systems, instruments and techniques for the measurement of nuclear radiation fields, and radiation shield design and evaluation.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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TerraPower begins U.K. regulatory approval process
Seattle-based TerraPower signaled its interest this week in building its Natrium small modular reactor in the United Kingdom, the company announced.
TerraPower sent a letter to the U.K.’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, formally establishing its intention to enter the U.K. generic design assessment (GDA) process. This is TerraPower’s first step in deployment of its Natrium technology—a 345-MW sodium fast reactor coupled with a molten salt energy storage unit—on the international stage.
Thomas Gutman
Nuclear Technology | Volume 12 | Number 2 | October 1971 | Pages 162-172
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A31024
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The phenomenon of interaction between air-spaced subcritical units of fissile materials has been investigated experimentally, and more recently using Monte Carlo calculations. Studies of array interactions using Monte Carlo codes indicate that certain techniques of array analysis which proceed from the extension of available experimental data may yield nonconservative results. These areas of apparent nonconservatism cannot be verified from studies of experimental data and may be subject to further question in view of inconsistencies observed among some of the Monte Carlo calculated arrays. Studies of experimental and calculated array data show the differing conclusions which may be developed and point out the need for future work.