1Radiation Medicine Department, Nuclear Engineering Faculty, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran 2Radiation Medicine Department, Nuclear Engineering Faculty, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran 3Radiotherapy Physics Department, Cancer Institute of Tehran, Tehran, Iran 4Medical Physics Department, Medical Faculty, Iran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran 5Radiation Medicine Dep...

S. TINA GHOSH and GEORGE E. APOSTOLAKIS US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Mail Stop: T-7F27 Washington, DC 20555, USA Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and Engineering Systems Division 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 24-221, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA Corresponding author. E-mail : [email protected]...

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When the UK's Calder Hall nuclear power station was connected to the grid in 1956, the programmes that made this possible involved a powerful combination of basic and applied research. Both the science and the engineering were novel, addressing new and challenging problems. That the last Calder Hall reactor was shut down only in 2003 attests to the success of the work. The strengths of bringing...

Their research and most significant results are presented in the following pages. Binotti Marco Linear Fresnel Reflectors: Study of the Technology and Steps toward Optimization Colombo Marco Experimental Investigation and Numerical Simulation of Two-Phase Flow in the Helical Coil Steam Generator Della Torre Vittorio Multi-scale CFD modelling of intake and exhaust systems for internal combustion...

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Climate science and nuclear weapons testing have a long and surprisingly intimate relationship. The global networks that monitored the Fukushima radiation plume and forecasted its movement are the direct descendants of systems and computer models developed to trace fallout from weapons tests. Tracing radioactive carbon as it cycles through the atmosphere, the oceans, and the biosphere has been ...

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