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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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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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BWXT employees trained as Nuclear Ambassadors
BWX Technologies has partnered with the American Nuclear Society to offer customized ANS Nuclear Ambassadors training to BWXT employees. The training kicked off in February with an initial two-hour virtual event that was presented to more than 60 BWXT employees, and it wrapped in April.
BWXT is the first company to participate in ANS’s newly revamped curriculum, which trains experts in K-12 learning.
Jesse A. Gudmundson, Kumar Sridharan, Todd R. Allen (Univ of Wisconsin-Madison), Edward J. Lahoda (Westinghouse), Timothy J. Renk (SNL)
Transactions | Volume 98 | Number 1 | June 2008 | Pages 1138-1139
Track 11: Professional Development