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NRC engineers share their expertise at the University of Puerto Rico
Robert Roche-Rivera and Marcos Rolón-Acevedo are licensed professional engineers who work at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. They are also alumni of the University of Puerto Rico–Mayagüez (UPRM) and have been sharing their knowledge and experience with students at their alma mater since last year, serving as adjunct professors in the university’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. During the 2023–2024 school year, they each taught two courses: Fundamentals of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and Nuclear Power Plant Engineering.
J. El Asri, O. El Bounagui, N. Tahiri, H. Erramli, A. Chetaine
Nuclear Technology | Volume 205 | Number 9 | September 2019 | Pages 1236-1244
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2019.1590071
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The stopping power of Formvar and Mylar polymeric materials for energy region (0.1 to 1.0) MeV/nucleon 19F, 23Na, 24Mg, 27Al, 28Si, 31P, 32S, 35Cl, and 40Ar ions have been determined. The energy loss and stopping power of Mylar were calculated for 11B having energies between 0.31 and 0.85 MeV/nucleon. In fact, the factor ξe and exponential function f(E) involved in Lindhard, Scharff, and Schiott (LSS) theory has been modified in light of the available simulation electronic stopping power values. The results obtained by the LSS modified theory and Monte Carlo simulations are compared with MSTAR, the SRIM predictions code, and experimental data. The obtained results show a close agreement qualitatively with MSTAR, experimental data, and those generated by the SRIM computer code.