Nuclear Science & Technology March 2023 Highlights
Highlights from the Nuclear Science and Technology directorate for the month of March 2023.
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April 2024 Nuclear Science & Technology Highlights
Research, program and personnel highlights for the Nuclear Science & Technology directorate for the month of April.
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Nuclear Science & Technology May 2023 Highlights
Monthly highlights for Nuclear Science and Technology research, programs and people/leadership.
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Nuclear Science & Technology April 2023 Highlights
Highlights from the Nuclear Science and Technology directorate for the month of April 2023.
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August Nuclear Science & Technology Highlights
These are the highlights from the Nuclear Science and Technology organizations for the month of August.
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Nuclear Science & Technology. Research and Development to Enable Advanced Reactor Demonstrations and Deployment
Presentation for OT Defender Fellows visit to INL
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Nuclear Science & Technology Directorate: Creating a Secure & Resilient Energy Future
NS&T Overview presentation for the visit of NEA leadership
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The Manhattan Project Nuclear Science and Technology Developments at Los Alamos: A Special Issue of Nuclear Technology
The year 2020 marked the 75th anniversary of the Trinity experiment, the world’s first nuclear explosion, on July 16, 1945, near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Trinity was a vital proof step toward the culmination of the Manhattan Project and the end of World War II. The technical accomplishments made by scientists and engineers from the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada (some originating in Germany, Hungary, Italy, France, and other countries) were recognized by many events in 2020, including a visit to New Mexico’s Los Alamos National Laboratory by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) dignitaries; historical documentaries. The importance of Trinity as a foundational accomplishment for the broad nuclear science and engineering community is clear; indeed, New Mexico’s chapter of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) is referred to as the Trinity Section. The events surrounding Trinity have even entered into high culture with recent performances of John Adams’s opera Doctor Atomic in San Francisco, Amsterdam, Chicago, New York, and Santa Fe.
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Nuclear Enterprise Science & Technology (NEST) [Slides]
The NEST Certificate Program is designed to provide students with the skills and experience to qualify for entry-level positions in nuclear facilities as Fissile Material Handler and/or Glovebox Operator. The program goal is to provide for a technically qualified workforce who can execute a variety of programmatic work in modern nuclear materials handling and processing facilities. The program is designed to be completed in a minimum of 1 year (2 semesters) of university level courses (30 credit hours). A certificate will be offered and awarded through the University of New Mexico – Los Alamos (UNM-LA). NEST is unique in that it is an immersive education program. The NNSA-required training for nuclear material handlers and fissionable material handlers has been cross-walked with the educational Core Curricula. Academic content will be delivered that provides background scientific and engineering understanding of the fundamental concepts behind this training. It will be offered as a Pilot Program to an incumbent cohort to ensure that the Certificate meets programmatic needs. NEST is modelled after a Wharton County Junior College (Texas) program to attract and produce nuclear reactor operators.
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Cryogenic tracer irradiation facility at the university of Texas at Austin
We report on a cryogenic gas irradiation facility in the 1.1 MW TRIGA reactor at The University of Texas at Austin. The system was designed to produce radioactive xenon and argon for environmental studies, and it can be applied to produce other gaseous radiotracers. The system design includes modeling accident scenarios to ensure operation does not risk damage to the reactor and minimizes risk of release of radioactive material. In conclusion, the SCALE code was used to model a 30-day irradiation of one liter of Xe-126 and the predicted activity is 0.9 Ci of Xe-127 at irradiation end.
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June 2023 NS&T Highlights
Monthly highlights for the Nuclear Science & Technology directorate for the month of June.
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October 2023 NS&T Highlights
An achievement report for the month of October 2023 for the Nuclear Science & Technology directorate.
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Prototype X-ray and Gamma Detection with Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy
Cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy, or CRES, is a novel approach to measuring the energy of an electron. By trapping a free electron in a high magnetic field, it undergoes cyclotron motion and emits radiofrequency (RF) waves. The frequency of this RF radiation is directly related to the energy of the electron. Because many cycles of the RF emission are recorded, the energy resolution of the CRES system is on the order of a single electron volt. To make a CRES system sensitive to photons, a target gas is used to induce a photoelectric effect, producing the electron that is subsequently trapped. By adding the binding energy of the target atom, the energy of the incident photon may be reconstructed. Using a xenon target gas, photoelectric interactions dominate up to approximately 300 keV, covering not only all atomic shell X-rays of the elements, but many low-lying nuclear states as well, including key transuranic elements related to nuclear security. CRES holds the potential of maintaining single-eV resolution up to this 300-keV range, thereby surpassing current state-of-the-art detectors by a factor of 10-100. The instrumental resolution of the system is limited by the uniformity of the applied magnetic field.
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February 2023 NS&T Highlights
Monthly highlights for February for the Nuclear Science & Technology directorate
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September 2023 NS&T Highlights
Research, program, and people/leadership achievements in the Nuclear Science & Technology directorate for the month of September.
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July 2024 NS&T Highlights
A summary of research, program and people/leadership highlights from INL's nuclear science & technology directorate for the month of July 2024.
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Artificial Intelligence for Accelerating Nuclear Applications, Science, and Technology
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) methods have had significant impacts in science and technology in recent years. These methods for generating models from datasets or logic-based algorithms that emulate aspects of human performance can similarly accelerate the fields of nuclear applications, science, and technology toward the IAEA goals of contributing to peace, health, and prosperity. In order to accomplish advances with AI in general and ML in particular across these fields, IAEA can play a significant role by establishing, hosting and curating centralised resources, including databases, adhering to FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) principles and Open Science best practices, providing stewardship of data sharing, supporting training efforts and development of relevant workforces, as well as enabling connections among the scientific, technology, mathematics, AI and ethics communities. Many areas can benefit from the use of AI in the realm of nuclear applications. In human health, these areas include clinical research, epidemiology, nutrition, medical imaging, radiotherapy and education of health professionals. AI-based tools are also being used to facilitate different clinical tasks in imaging, computer-assisted diagnosis in mammography and lung cancer screening programmes, and dose prediction in nuclear medicine procedures. ML methods in particular may also increase the efficiency and accuracy of the analysis of computerised tomography and dual-energy absorptiometry scans for body composition and bone analysis. The application of AI methods to nuclear and related technologies in food and agriculture can lead to significant advances and improved efficiency in the optimisation of agricultural production, food product development, management of supply chains, food safety and food authenticity control. In the water and environmental sector, AI can help inform policies to mitigate the world’s water problems. The application of AI techniques to hydrology and environmental sciences is expected to improve patterns identification and enable model predictions under a changing climate.
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