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Young Members Group
The Young Members Group works to encourage and enable all young professional members to be actively involved in the efforts and endeavors of the Society at all levels (Professional Divisions, ANS Governance, Local Sections, etc.) as they transition from the role of a student to the role of a professional. It sponsors non-technical workshops and meetings that provide professional development and networking opportunities for young professionals, collaborates with other Divisions and Groups in developing technical and non-technical content for topical and national meetings, encourages its members to participate in the activities of the Groups and Divisions that are closely related to their professional interests as well as in their local sections, introduces young members to the rules and governance structure of the Society, and nominates young professionals for awards and leadership opportunities available to members.
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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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The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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Feinstein Institutes to research novel radiation countermeasure
The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, home of the research institutes of New York’s Northwell Health, announced it has received a five-year, $2.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the potential of human ghrelin, a naturally occurring hormone, as a medical countermeasure against radiation-induced gastrointestinal syndrome (GI-ARS).
Jiyoung Lee, Haseeb ur Rehman, Yonghee Kim
Nuclear Technology | Volume 201 | Number 1 | January 2018 | Pages 41-51
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2017.1392397
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of producing 99Mo using the photonuclear giant dipole resonance (GDR) (γ, n) reaction. The focus of the study is a novel implementation of the photonuclear transmutation method by the use of laser-Compton scattering (LCS) gamma-ray beams to produce 99Mo. The use of LCS enables the production of energetic and high-intensity gamma rays with a tunable energy spectrum based on various facility parameters (i.e., electron energy, laser energy, and collimation angle). The combination of these three features have made the use of the LCS process for the production of 99Mo using the photonuclear (γ, n) reaction a concept deserving further investigation. In this study, rigorous optimization of the LCS spectrum is performed to maximize the overlapping of the GDR cross section and the LCS spectrum to optimize the production rate and activity of the 99Mo product. Furthermore, the unique innovation of the multiple laser extraction concept is also included in this paper in order to increase the gamma-ray intensity by a factor of 10 to 20.
