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The Nuclear Science and Technology Division
(NSTD) of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) sponsored the first workshop
of the newly formed Computational Medical Physics Working Group (CMPWG) on
October 26, 2005. The CMPWG was formed in November 2004 within the American
Nuclear Society (ANS) and is jointly hosted by three ANS divisions
Mathematics and Computations, Biology and Medicine, and Radiation Protection
and Shielding. It is an international group dedicated to
the validation and advancement of computational tools in medical and health
physics applications (http://cmpwg.ans.org).
The workshop was held to address several key
areas:
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identify the medical physics problems and
experiments for computational benchmarks,
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identify the software tools, their
applications, strengths and weaknesses,
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identify applications suitable for parallel
computing, and
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identify the roadmap for benchmarking
activities.
Discussions centered on the need for
experimental data, the importance of both Monte Carlo and deterministic
methods, and the need to evaluate current nuclear data for medical physics.
These activities are aimed at improving dose predictions for radiation
therapy and other medical activities that utilize ionizing radiation.
CMPWG
consists of individuals from the American
Nuclear Society (ANS), American
Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), and Health Physics Society (HPS).
The following institutions were represented
at the workshop.
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Georgia Institute of Technology,
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University
of Florida,
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Idaho
State University,
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Louisiana
State University,
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University
of Wisconsin,
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Tufts
University New England Medical
Center,
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University of Tennessee Medical
Center,
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University
of Texas M.D. Anderson
Cancer Center,
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Oak
Ridge National Laboratory,
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Idaho
National Laboratory, and
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Los Alamos
National Laboratory,
among others.
If you have interest in the area, we invite
you to join us.
Contact: B.L.
Kirk (kirkbl@ornl.gov)
Oslo, 7 October 2005The Norwegian Nobel
Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2005 is to be shared, in
two equal parts, between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and
its Director General, Mohamed ElBaradei, for their efforts to prevent nuclear
energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear
energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way.
At a time when the threat of nuclear arms is
again increasing, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to underline that this
threat must be met through the broadest possible international cooperation.
This principle finds its clearest expression today in the work of the IAEA
and its Director General. In the nuclear non-proliferation regime, it is the
IAEA [that ensures] that nuclear energy is not misused for military purposes,
and the Director General has stood out as an unafraid advocate of new
measures to strengthen that regime. At a time when disarmament efforts appear
deadlocked, when there is a danger that nuclear arms will spread both to
states and to terrorist groups, and when nuclear power again appears to be
playing an increasingly significant role, IAEA´s work is of incalculable
importance.
In his will,
Alfred Nobel wrote that the Peace Prize should, among other criteria, be
awarded to whoever had done most for the abolition or reduction of standing
armies. In its application of this criterion in recent decades, the Norwegian
Nobel Committee has concentrated on the struggle to diminish the significance
of nuclear arms in international politics, with a view to their abolition.
That the world has achieved little in this respect makes active opposition to
nuclear arms all the more important today.
http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/2005/press.html
IAEA Director General Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei
Statement on Occasion of Receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize 2005
What do I feel at this occasion? Gratitude, pride, and
hope.
Gratitude: With
this recognition, the Norwegian Nobel Committee underscores the value and the
relevance of the work we have been doing. It recognizes the urgency of
addressing the dangers we face: nuclear proliferation, nuclear armaments, and
nuclear terrorism. The award will lend prominence and impetus to the IAEAs  ultimate objectiveof passing to our
children a world free of nuclear weaponsand for that I am deeply grateful.
Pride: It is
at once humbling to receive such an extraordinary honour, and an occasion for
me to take great pride in all the men and women who serve at the
International Atomic Energy Agency. This is an acknowledgement of their
untiring efforts in the service of peace - efforts that the Prize Committee
has characterized as being of incalculable importance.
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The IAEA was founded with a simple credo:
Atoms for Peacemeaning that nuclear science should be used safely and
securely in the service of humankind - in peaceful applications related to
energy production, health, water, agriculture and other aspects of
developmentand not for its destruction. More than anything, this award
suggests that, almost five decades later, we are still focused unwaveringly
on living up to that objective.
Hope: It has
long been my belief that the road to international peace and security lies
through multilateralismthe collective search by people of all racial,
religious, ethnic and national backgrounds to find a common ground, based not
on intimidation or rivalry but on understanding and human solidarity.
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In a practical sense, this means developing a
functional system of international security that does not derive from a
nuclear weapons deterrentbut rather based on addressing the security
concerns of all.
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Ultimately, the news I have just received -
that we are being awarded the Nobel Peace Prizegives me renewed hope that,
working in concert, the international community can achieve this goal. It
strengthens my resolve to fulfil both aspects of the Agency´s mandate:
ensuring that the benefits of nuclear energy are distributed as broadly as
possible in the service of humankind, and working towards a world free of
nuclear weapons.
http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/Statements/2005/ebsp2005n012.html
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), founded
with the credo: Atoms for Peacemeaning that nuclear science should be used
safely and securely in the service of mankindhas been acknowledged five
decades later for its efforts in the service of peace by the Nobel Peace
Prize Committee, shared jointly with the present Director General, Mohamed
ElBaradei. The Agency, known for its urgency in addressing the dangers of
nuclear proliferation, nuclear armaments, and nuclear terrorism, is also
known for advancing nuclear science for its peaceful applicationsthose
related to energy production, health, water, agriculture, and other aspects related
to human betterment.
The IAEA is an important channel for communicating and
exchanging nuclear information and technology related to nuclear safety
across national and other political boundaries. As the European OECD offered
channels for interaction with the European nuclear community for information
and technology exchange in nuclear safety areas, so did the IAEA for the
non-OECD countries. The Radiation Shielding Information Center (RSIC) was
successful in advancing technology in radiation transport and shielding due
to the cooperation and exchange of personnel, technology, and data, through
channels provided by the OECD Nuclear Energy Data and Computer Code Centers
(NEDAC) and the IAEA Nuclear Data Center (INDC) and working groups sponsored
by each.
The orientation visits and exchange of data and
personnel were important in the early development of RSIC. Interaction with
both OECD and IAEA began in the 1960s and continued through the years. An RSIC staff member, Henrietta
Hendrickson, spent useful time in the IAEA Nuclear
Data Center
in the early 1980s and several INDC and NEDAC staff members spent time in
RSIC. The evolved Radiation Safety and Computational Information Center
(RSICC) continues to find international interaction of great value.
We applaud the Norwegian Nobel Committee on its wisdom
for conveying the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize on the IAEA. It is a well earned
honor for the efforts of many IAEA staff members who have served the cause of
peace while they promoted the benefits of nuclear energy for the betterment
of the people of the earth.
-Betty F. Maskewitz
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New
Mexico, contributed a newly frozen version of this
code system to solve the linear Boltzmann transport equation for neutral
particles using the deterministic (SN) method. PARTISN (PARallel,
TIme-Dependent SN) solves both the static (fixed source or eigenvalue) and
time-dependent forms of the transport equation in forward or adjoint mode.
Vacuum, reflective, periodic, white, or inhomogeneous boundary conditions are
solved. General anisotropic scattering and inhomogeneous sources are
permitted. PARTISN solves the transport equation on orthogonal (single level
or block-structured AMR) grids in 1-D (slab, two-angle slab, cylindrical, or
spherical), 2-D (X-Y, R-Z, or R-T) and 3-D (X-Y-Z or R-Z-T) geometries.
PARTISN is the evolutionary successor to
CCC-547/DANTSYS. User input and cross section format is very similar to that
of the DANTSYS code. PARTISN accepts basic multigroup cross sections for
isotopes, in either of the standard interface files (ISOTXS or GRUPXS) or in
a card‑image library whose form is referred to as Los
Alamos, ANISN, or FIDO.
Standard interface files whose specifications have been defined by the
Reactor Physics Committee on Computer Code Coordination are accepted, used,
and created by the code. A free-field card-image input capability is provided
for the user. The code provides the user with considerable flexibility in
using both card-image or sequential file input and in controlling the
execution of modules. Note that no cross section data are included in the
package.
The
program is written in ANSI standard F90 with a few C language routines used
to interface to the operating system. No executables are included in the
package, so compilers are required on all systems. PARTISN stresses most f90
compilers, so please ensure that the compiler version you are using is at
least as recent as the one listed below on which the LANL developers ran the
code system.
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Lahey‑Fujitsu LF95 Fortran Compiler
Version 6.20 on Intel PC running Linux
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Absoft 8.2 on Redhat Enterprise WS 3.0
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IBM XLF Fortran Compiler Version 7.1.0.3 on
IBM RS/6000
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MIPSpro Fortran Compiler Version 7.3.1.3m on
SGI
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Compaq Fortran Compiler V5.5.0‑1 on
Compaq Alpha under Digital Unix
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Cray J90 and T90 with CF90 Version 3.0.2.1
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Lahey-Fujitsu Fortran Compiler version 7.1
under Windows in a Cygwin environment
RSICC tested this release in serial mode on
IBM RS/6000 under AIX 5.1 with XL Fortran 08.01.0000.0003 and on a Pentium IV
running WindowsXP SP2 with Lahey/Fujitsu Fortran 95 Compiler Release 7.10.02
and in parallel and serial modes on AMD Athlon with Lahey/Fujitsu Fortran 95
L6.10a under Red Hat Linux 7.3.
Parallelization is performed using MPI. The
program is designed to run on UNIX-like operating systems. In addition to
Fortran and C compilers, program building requires GNUmake (Version 3.74 or
later), GNU awk (Version 3.0 or later), and cpp. The package is transmitted
on a CD which includes documentation, source files, installation procedures,
and a test case in a Unix tar file. Reference: LA-UR-05-3925 (May 2005). Fortran 90 and C; IBM, SGI, Alpha, Cray and PC - Linux and Windows
(C00707MNYCP01).
Battelle
Columbus Laboratory, Columbus,
Ohio, contributed a PC version
of this code system to calculate transient and steady state temperature
distribution in multidimensional systems. TRUMP solves a general nonlinear
parabolic partial differential equation describing flow in various kinds of
potential fields, such as fields of temperature, pressure, or electricity and
magnetism. Simultaneously, it will solve two additional equations
representing, in thermal problems, heat production by decomposition of two
reactants having rate constants with a general Arrhenius temperature
dependence. In this revision, no major
changes were made to the code other than those required to compile on a
personal computer. The PC executable included in the package was created
using Lahey/Fujitsu Fortran 95 Release 5.70C under WindowsXP. RSICC compiled
and tested TRUMP-PC on a on a Dell Pentium IV 2.8 GHz running Windows XP SP
2. TRUMP was developed in the 1970s at Livermore National Laboratory on a CDC
7600. It was converted to run under OS/360 on IBM360 and under OS/370 on
IBM370. These older versions are retained in the package for archival
purposes. The package is transmitted on a CD in compressed Windows files.
Fortran source files and PC executables are included. Reference: UCRL 14754
Rev. 3 (September 1, 1972). Fortran IV.
An error was identified in SCALE 5 that may
impact certain type of unit cells, specifically asymmetric and symmetric slab
cells (ASYMSLABCELL and SYMMSLABCELL). Users are encouraged to read more
about the problem and to follow the checklist in the links below to determine
if the error applies to their problems and if the potential impact is
non-trivial.
More info: http://rsicc.ornl.gov/rsic-cgi-bin/enote.pl?nb=scale5&action=view&page=84
Official notice and checklist: http://rsicc.ornl.gov/rsic-cgi-bin/enote.pl?nb=scale5&action=view&page=-1
In SCALE 5, the LATTICECELL input format was
changed to use keywords. As part of these changes, errors were introduced in
the calculation of dimensions for asymmetric and symmetric slab cells. These
programming errors in the Materials Information Processor (MIPLIB) cause an
inaccurate Dancoff factor calculation from a SCALE 5 control sequence and
will cause errors in the predicted k-eff value that uses the Dancoff factor.
The error only occurs for control sequence input files that use the
ASYMSLABCELL or SYMMSLABCELL option and the new SCALE 5 input format
(keywords READ COMP). Please follow the links above for additional
information.
NRC Chairman, Nils J. Diaz, was inducted into the Hispanic Engineer National
Achievement Awards Conference (HENAAC) Hall of Fame during a ceremony on
October 7 at the 17th Annual HENAAC Conference in Anaheim, California.
The HENAAC Hall of Fame was established in 1998 to recognize Hispanic
engineers, scientists, and technology professionals who achieve excellence.
Dr. Diaz holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Nuclear
Engineering Sciences from the University
of Florida. He practiced nuclear medicine and health
physics and was licensed as a Senior Reactor Operator for 12 years by the
NRC. He is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society, the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Prior to his appointment as Commissioner with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) in 1996, Dr. Diaz was Professor of Nuclear Engineering
Sciences at the University of Florida, Director of the Innovative Nuclear
Space Power Institute (INSPI)a national consortium of industries,
universities and national laboratoriesand President and Principal Engineer
of Florida Nuclear Associates, Inc. Dr. Diaz career includes 11 years as
Director of INSPI for the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization/Department
of Defense, two years in California as Associate Dean for Research at the
California State University Long Beach, one year in Spain as Principal
Advisor to Spains Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and six years at nuclear
utilities and vendors. From 1971 to 1996, Dr. Diaz consulted on nuclear
engineering and energetics to private industry, the U.S.
government and several foreign governments.
Dr. Diaz was serving a second five-year term
at the NRC when he was designated as Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission by President George W. Bush on April 1, 2003.
William
Lowndes McLaughlin, 77, research scientist and teacher, died October 26,
2005, at his home in Lexington,
Virginia. McLaughlin was a physicist at the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg,
Maryland, and adjunct professor at the University of Maryland. He was an authority on
methods of measuring radiation doses for processing and protection, and he is
known world-wide as the father of radiochromic-dye dosimetry. The measurement
systems he developed are still used around the world. He traveled widely on
scientific missions and mentored countless younger scientists from many
countries. After his 1996 retirement, he was named an NIST Fellow. In 2003 NIST
sponsored a three-day symposium in his honor where colleagues from around the
world delivered scholarly papers based on his work. He graduated from Potomac State
University and from Hampden-Sydney College in 1949. In 195051 he was a Rotary International
Fellow at Tübingen University in Germany. From 1954 to 1956 he was
with the U.S. Army Signal Corps on Enewetok and Bikini
islands measuring radiation at the atomic-bomb test sites.
From 19731991, he was an advisor to the
Accelerator and Environmental Science Departments, Risř National Laboratory,
Denmark, and from19911995 to the Dosimetry Section of the International
Atomic Energy Agency.
William McLaughlins honors include the U.S.
Department of Commerces Silver Medal (1969) and Gold Medal (1979); the
National Bureau of Standards Applied Research Award (1985); the American
Nuclear Society Radiation Science and Technology Award (1987); and the
Elsevier Science Journal of Applied Radiation and Isotopes Gold Medal (1995).
He received the Research and Development 100 Award three times in his
career. In 1999, the Washington
Academy of Sciences honored him for outstanding achievement in the physical
sciences. He was a member of the
American Nuclear Society, the American Physical Society, the Optical Society
of America, the Health Physics Society, and Cosmos Club in Washington.
He was the lead author of two key books in
his field, Dosimetry for Food
Irradiation, and Dosimetry for
Radiation Processing, as well as chapter contributions to several other books. He was an editor of numerous other volumes
and of the International Journal of
Applied Radiation and Isotopes (1989-1999).
Paul
V. Harper died July 15 in Evanston,
Illinois; he was 89. Harper
received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard
University and trained in surgery at
the University
of Chicago where he
became assistant professor of surgery in 1953. A pioneer in nuclear medicine, he first implanted
radioactive materials in patients to treat inoperable tumors in the 1950s. In
1961 he devised an efficient method of producing iodine-125 which is used to
scan the liver and thyroid. He led the
University of Chicago team that developed
technetium-99m, an isotope still used to pinpoint and diagnose cancers.
Ira L.
Morgan died at the age of 78 on June 30 in Austin, Texas.
He was a fellow of the ANS and a member since 1960. He was a World War II
veteran of the Naval Air Corps. He earned his masters degree from Texas Christian
University and doctorate in physics
and mathematics from the University
of Texas. He worked on
the Universitys first high-voltage accelerator, known as the atom-smasher
at the Balcones
Research Center
as assistant director of the Nuclear Physics Research Laboratory. He was
professor of physics and director of the Center for Nuclear Studies at UT
from 19661976. He served as adjunct professor and assistant to the vice
president of research at the University
of North Texas from
19871997. During his career he established several businesses: Texas Nuclear
Corporation, Columbia Scientific Industries, Scientific Measurement Systems,
Integrated Digital Modeling Corp. and Advanced Molecular Imaging Systems.
Joseph
Rotblat was 96 when he died on August 31 in London. He was a physicist educated at the University of Warsaw where he earned a masters and
doctorate in physics. He won a research fellowship to Liverpool University
where he studied under James Chadwick, who had discovered the neutron. Along
with Chadwick, Rotblat became a member of the British team working on the Manhattan
Project. He left nine months later over misgivings about developing an atomic
bomb. In 1957 he helped found the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World
Affairs in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, to promote nuclear
disarmament; he received the Nobel Peace prize in 1995 for his work with the
Pugwash Conferences.
Rollin
G. Taecker, former director of Argonne National Laboratorys
International School of Nuclear Science and Engineering, died August 19 at
the age of 86. He received his doctorate in chemical engineering from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison and it was there that he developed an
interest in nuclear engineering. He became a professor of chemical
engineering at Kansas State University
and in 1953 helped initiate President Dwight Eisenhowers Atoms for Peace
program at Argonne. He was a fellow at the
Saclay Nuclear Institute in France
from 19621963 and served as chief of fellowships and training for the
International Atomic Energy Agency from 19691971.
W.
Kelly Woods, died August 4 at the age of 92. After receiving a doctorate
in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he
joined the engineering department of DuPont in 1940. He later served as a
technical advisor for the plutonium production reactors at the Hanford Site
in Washington.
After serving in WWII he spent 25 more years in the nuclear industry at
General Electric. In 1972 he moved to Salem, Oregon, where he served for six years on the Oregon
Energy Facility Siting Council and as a part-time lecturer in nuclear
engineering at Oregon
State University.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Agency (NRC) has
announced an aggressive recruiting campaign to deal with anticipated
retirements and to bring up staffing levels to handle an expected rise in
applications for new reactor licenses in 2007 and 2008. About 350 employees
in both entry-level and higher positions will be added next year. NRC
employment information and links to the NRCareers job
application system can be found at http://www.nrc.gov/who-we-are/employment.html. For dates and details of other planned
recruitment events, those interested should contact Jim Horn at 301-415-7703
or JEH2@nrc.gov.
The Nuclear & Radiological
Engineering Program of the University
of Cincinnati (UCNRE) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty
position at the Assistant or Associate Professor level in the Department of
Mechanical, Industrial and Nuclear Engineering. Screening of applicants will
begin on January 1, 2006 and will continue until the position is filled. Details on this opportunity are available
at the following website: http://www.eng.uc.edu/dept_min/positions/.
Interested candidates should e-mail a resume, a brief statement of research,
teaching, and service objectives, copies of two representative publications,
and the names of three professional references to:
Dr.
Henry Spitz, Search Committee Chair
Nuclear
and Radiological Engineering Program
Mechanical,
Industrial and Nuclear Engineering Department
Email:
NREFacultySearch@uc.edu, phone:
(513) 556-2003
RSICC
attempts to keep its users and contributors advised of conferences, courses,
and symposia in the field of radiation protection, transport, and shielding
through this section of the newsletter.
Should you be involved in the planning/organization of such events,
feel free to send your announcements and
calls for papers via email to riceaf@ornl.gov with
conferences in the subject line by the 20th of each month. Please include
the announcement in its native format as an attachment to the message. If the meeting is on a website, please include the
url.
Every attempt is made to ensure that the
links provided in the Conference and Calendar sections of this newsletter are correct and live. However, the
very nature of the web creates the possibility that the links may become unavailable. In that case, please
call or mail the contact provided.
Lead
Teachers: Drs. John Hendricks, Gregg McKinney, Laurie Waters
Organizer:
HQC Professional Services
Contact: bill@mcnpxworkshops.com
Information: http://mcnpxworkshops.com and
MCNPX homepage: http://mcnpx.lanl.gov
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2006 Schedule
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January 913
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Introductory
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Las Vegas, NV
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March 2731
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Intermediate
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Cape Town, South Africa
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June 1216
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Introductory
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Santa Fe, NM
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MCNPX is packed with new and exciting
plotting features, including numerous mesh tally options which can be superimposed
on your geometry plot and plotted within the MCNPX run, eliminating the need
for post-processing and costly additional plotting package(s). You can plot particle flux, tracks, dosage,
and energy deposition as well as source points and many others.
The
workshops include hands-on instruction, generally on PC Windows machines.
Subject to participant export
approval from the MCNPX beta test team, participants will be able to access the Fortran 90 version of MCNPX
2.4, the LA150 (150 MeV) cross-section data for over 40 isotopes for incident
neutrons and protons and 12 for photonuclear interactions, and a notebook of
viewgraphs.
Follow-up
consultation for class participants will be provided.
The
classes are taught by experienced MCNPX code developers and instructors. More
information on code versions and capabilities is available at MCNPX Workshops
web site http://mcnpxworkshops.com.
The American Nuclear Society Radiation Protection and Shielding
Division Biennial Topical Meeting will be held April 36, 2006, at the Pecos River
Village in Carlsbad, New Mexico.
The conference will open with a keynote address by Dr. Glenn Knoll. Other
outstanding plenary speakers will include Dr. Kenneth Shultis, Dr. Cassiano
de Oliveira and other special speakers.
Workshops will be offered on April 2 and 6, both morning and afternoon.
These continuing education classes with the time and location are listed in
the conference website.
There will be no charge to those registered for the conference for any
of the workshops, although pre-registration is requested. Attendance at the
conference will provide continuing education credits for various technical
certifications depending on the degree of participation by the attendee.
Tours will be offered of
the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a licensed and operating deep
geological repository for transuranic waste. The actual number of visitors
WIPP can accommodate will depend on operational conditions and the work
schedule of the facility. The WIPP site is a federal facility and advance
notice will be required for a site visit so early registration is strongly
encouraged.
The Trinity Site is also available to the general public independent of
the conference on Saturday, April 1, 2006. The Trinity Site is the location
of the worlds first detonation of a nuclear weapon.
The call for papers, program and contact information for the conference
can be found at http://www.ans-rpsw-carlsbad.com/.
This two-day training course on neutron spectra unfolding will be held
April 78, 2006, in Cape Town,
South Africa.
The training course is organized by the Neutron Radiation department of the
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig, Germany.
Additional support is provided by EURADOS. The course is intended for those
who do spectrometry in neutron or mixed neutron/photon fields and need to
analyze their data using unfolding procedures; emphasis is on practical
aspects of unfolding.
A series of lectures in the morning sessions will provide an
introduction to unfolding as well as allow for discussions on the theory of
unfolding. In the afternoon sessions participants will work on specific
examples at PC-workplaces using the UMG software package provided by PTB
(UMG: Unfolding with GRAVEL and MAXED, currently distributed by NEA as code
package NEA-1665 and by RSICC as code package PSR-529). We will focus on
Bonner sphere measurements for our discussion of few-channel unfolding, and
on liquid scintillation spectrometer (NE213) measurements for our discussion
of multi-channel unfolding.
The number of participants will be restricted due to the limited number
of PC-workplaces available. Therefore, you should register as soon as
possible. For on-line registration and further information please visit the
website at: http://www.ptb.de/utc2006/. Contact:
Burkhard Wiegel, PTB, email Burkhard.Wiegel@ptb.de The
fee for the course is 800 Euro and includes a CD with a complete set of notes
and unfolding software, as well as refreshments.
DATES: 1721 July 2006 (4.5 days)
FEE: $1,450 per person
PLACE: The MESA Complex, Room 130, University of New Mexico-Los Alamos Campus
Monte Carlo type calculations are
ideally suited to solving a variety of problems in radiation protection and
dosimetry. The Los Alamos MCNP code is a general and powerful Monte Carlo transport code for photons, neutrons, and
electrons, and can be safely described as the industry standard. This
course is aimed at the HP, medical physicist, and rad engineer with no prior
experience with Monte Carlo techniques. The
focus is almost entirely on the application of MCNP to solve a variety of
practical problems in radiation shielding and dosimetry. The intent is to
jump start the student toward using MCNP productively. With a little
practice and study of the examples, many will find they are able to solve
problems that have, in the past, been out of reach.
Course content: Extensive interactive practice sessions are conducted
on a personal computer. Topics will include an overview of the MCNP code and
the Monte Carlo method, input file preparation, geometry, source definition,
standard MCNP tallies, interpretation of the output file, exposure and dose
rate calculations, radiation shielding, photon skyshine, detector simulation
and dosimetry. Students will be provided with a comprehensive class manual
and a diskette containing all of the practice problems. This course has been
granted 32 Continuing Education Credits by the AAHP (2005-00-003), and 4.5 CM
points by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene. The course is offered by
the Health Physics Measurements Group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Registration is available online at: http://drambuie.lanl.gov/~esh4/mcnp.htm.
Make checks (U.S. dollars on a U.S. bank ) payable to the University of California
and mail with name, address, and phone number to: David Seagraves, Mail Stop J573,
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Group HSR-4, MCNP Class, Los Alamos, NM 87545.
Inquiries regarding registration and class space availability should be
made to David Seagraves, 505-667-4959, fax: 505-665-7686, e-mail: dseagraves@lanl.gov. Technical questions may also be directed to
Dick Olsher, 505-667-3364; e-mail: dick@lanl.gov.
Please note that this course is separate from and independent of the
courses being offered by the MCNP and MCNPX Teams at LANL.
Richard H. Olsher
The Canadian Nuclear Society has announced that the ANS Reactor Physics
Topical PHYSOR-2006, Advances in Nuclear Analysis and Simulation, will be
held in Vancouver, BC, Canada,
Sept. 1014, 2006. The meeting is sponsored by the Reactor Physics Division
of the ANS and co-sponsored by a host of international societies. The
conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Vancouver.
You are invited to visit the meeting website at http://www.cns-snc.ca/physor2006/
to obtain updated information and to download a copy of the call for papers. The conference
chair is Benjamin Rouben, FCNS Manager, Reactor Core Physics Branch, AECL
Sheridan Park (phone 905-823-9060 x 4550, fax: 905-822-0567, email: roubenb@aecl.ca). The technical program
co-chair is Ken Kozier, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL), Chalk River
Laboratories, Chalk River, Ontario, Canada K0J 1J0 (Phone: +1-613-584-8811 +
ext.5059, email: physor2006@aecl.ca).
The Twelfth International Congress on Neutron
Capture Therapy (ICNCT-12) will be held October 913, 2006, in Takamatsu, Kagawa,
Japan. The
meeting is sponsored by the International Society for Neutron Capture Therapy
(ISNCT) with the society president, Yoshinobu Nakagawa of the Kagawa National
Children's Hospital, acting as chairman of the organizing committee. The
meeting will focus on the many significant developments that have been made
in neutron capture therapy in biology, medicine, chemistry, medical physics
and engineering, and clinical trials. The most up-to-date information can be
found at the conference website: http://icnct-12.umin.jp/index.html.
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