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Joseph John Bevelacqua
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Muon tomography can reveal the location and configuration of a displaced core following a severe power reactor accident. The image contrast of this technique is enhanced using energies beyond those encountered in the cosmic ray muon spectrum. ...
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Joseph John Bevelacqua
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Fukushima Daiichi is the most recent in a series of major power reactor accidents. With Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, Fukushima Daiichi offers another event in which severe fuel damage occurred, fission products were released to the environment,...
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Joseph John Bevelacqua
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Future nuclear power expansion to nations with limited technical infrastructure presents unique challenges to establishing a coherent and integrated radiation protection organization that supports the challenging work at a nuclear power station. Th...
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Joseph John Bevelacqua
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Health physics aspects associated with operation of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) are investigated. ITER has health physics elements in common with existing facilities as well as unique features. Fusion facility ...
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Joseph John Bevelacqua
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The health physics challenges encountered by power operations in existing Generation II and III reactors are also present in the planned Generation IV systems. Generation IV reactors will present additional health physics challenges because the cor...
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Joseph John Bevelacqua
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Laser isotope separation is an advanced uranium enrichment technology. It selectively enriches 235U without incurring the negative health physics consequences associated with increased 234U enrichment. Laser technology increases the efficienc...
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Joseph John Bevelacqua
Recriticality concerns have been expressed following severe power reactor accidents, involving fuel melting and possible core relocation out of the reactor vessel. Analyses of reactor coolant liquid samples must carefully evaluate fission isotope a...
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