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Publications from 2009

  1. G. Thoreson, R.G. McClarren, and J.H. Chang, "High Resolution Time Integration for Sn Radiation Transport," Annals of Nuclear Energy (to be published).
  2. T. Rogers, J.C. Ragusa, S. Schultz, R. St-Clair, "Optimization of PWR Fuel Assembly Radial Enerichment and Burnable Poison Location based on Simulated Annealing," Nuclear Engineering and Design (to be published).
  3. P. Tsvetkov, T. G. Lewis, III, and A. B. Alajo, "TRU-Fueled VHTRs for Applications Requiring an Extended Operation with Minimized Control and No Refueling," Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power (to be published).
  4. M. Rosa, Y. Azmy, and J. E. Morel, "Properties of the Sn-Equivalent Integral Transport Operator in Slab Geometry and the Iterative Acceleration of Neutral Particle Transport Methods," Nuclear Science and Engineering (to be published).
  5. E.G. Fu, Jesse Carter, M. Martin, G.Q. Xie, X. Zhang, Y.Q. Wang, R. Littleton, and L. Shao, "Electron Irradiation Induced Structural Transformation in Metallic Glasses," Scripta Materialia (to be published).
  6. S. S. Chirayath, G. Hollenbeck, J. Ragusa, and P. Nelson, "Neutronic and nonproliferation characteristics of (PuO2-UO2) and (PuO2-ThO2) as fast reactor fuels," Nuclear Engineering and Design (to be published).
  7. N. Brown, S. Oh, S. T. Revankar, K. Vierow, S. Rodriguez, R. Cole Jr., R. O. Gauntt, "Simulation of Sulfur Iodine Thermochemical Hydrogen Production Plant Coupled To High Temperature Heat Source," Nuclear Technology 167(1), 95-106, 2009.
  8. Y. Liao and K. Vierow, "Variable Property Effects on Vapor Condensation with a Noncondensable Gas," Nuclear Technology 167(1), 13-19, 2009.
  9. S.S.Chirayath, J. Ragusa, and P. Nelson, "Thorium blended and regular MOX burn-up studies for fast reactor fuel cycle safeguards," Proceedings of 50th annual meeting of INMM, July 12-16, 2009, Tucson, AZ, USA.
  10. C.M. Marianno, "Conveying Uncertainty in Map Products for Radiological Events," 54th Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society, July 2009.
  11. S. B. Rodriguez, R. O. Gauntt, R. Cole, F. Gelbard, K. McFadden, T. Drennen, B. Martin, D. Louie, L. Archuleta, M. El-Genk, J. M. Tournier, F. Espinoza, S. T. Revankar, and K. Vierow, "Transient Analysis of Sulfur-Iodine Cycle Experiments and Very High Temperature Reactor Simulations Using MELCOR-H2," Nuclear Technology 166(1), 76-85 (2009).
  12. A.M. LaFleur, W.S. Charlton, H.O. Menlove, and M. Swinhoe, "Development of Self-Interrogation Neutron Resonance Densitometry (SINRD) to Measure the 235U and 239Pu Content in a PWR 17x17 Spent Fuel Assembly," Proceedings of 31st Annual Meeting of ESARDA, May 26-28, 2009, Vilnius, Lithuania.
  13. D.C. Strohmeyer, and W. S. Charlton, "Feasibility Study of a Portable Coupled 3He Neutron Detector with LaBr3 Gamma Scintillator for the Purpose of Plutonium Identification and Quantification," Proceedings of 31st Annual Meeting of ESARDA, May 26-28, 2009, Vilnius, Lithuania.
  14. S.J. Tobin, W.S. Charlton, M.H. Ehinger, M.L. Fensin, A.S. Hoover, H.O. Menlove, B.J. Quiter, A. Rajasingam, N.P. Sandoval, S.F. Saavedra, D. Strohmeyer, M.T. Swinhoe, S.J. Thompson, "Determining Plutonium in Spent Fuel with Nondestructive Assay Techniques," Proceedings of 31st Annual Meeting of ESARDA, May 26-28, 2009, Vilnius, Lithuania.
  15. W.S. Charlton, D. Strohmeyer, A. Stafford, S. Saavedra, A.S. Hoover, and C. Rudy, "The Use of Self-Induced XRF to Quantify the Pu Content in PWR Spent Nuclear Fuel," Proceedings of 31st Annual Meeting of ESARDA, May 26-28, 2009, Vilnius, Lithuania.
  16. P. Nelson and C.M. Sprecher, "Where will new nuclear power plants be constructed? Validation of a predictive model," Proceedings of 31st Annual Meeting of ESARDA, May 26-28, 2009, Vilnius, Lithuania.
  17. Wei Hua, S-D Yao, D. Wijesundera, X. Wang, W-K Chu, M. Martin, J. Carter, M. Hollander, and L. Shao, "Modeling of ion beam induced damage in Si during channelign Rutherford backscattering spectrometry analysis," Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 267(5), 813-816, 2009.
  18. J. K Wagner, J. A. Dillon, E. K. Blythe, and J. Ford, "Dose characterization of the RadSource 2400 X-ray irradiator for oyster pastuerization," Applied Radiation and Isotopes 67(2), 334-339 (2009).
  19. W.B. Wilson, R.T. Perry, W.S. Charlton, and T.A. Parish, "Sources: A code for calculating (alpha, n), spontaneous fission, and delayed neutron sources and spectra," Progress in Nuclear Energy In Press. Available online 12 January 2009.
  20. Y. Wang and J.C. Ragusa, "Application of hp Adaptivity to the Multigroup Diffusion Equations," Nuclear Science and Engineering 161(1), 22-48 (2009).
  21. J.C. Ragusa, and V. Mahadevan, "Consistent and accurate schemes for coupled neutronics thermal-hydraulics reactor analysis," Nuclear Engineering and Design In Press. Available online 6 January 2009.
  22. J. Essex , Marianno C., Ainsworth P., Davison B., Istle J., and Hassen J., "A Solution for Real-Time Data Acquisition, Analysis, and Dissemination in Support of Nuclear Emergency Response," 42nd Annual Mid-year Meeting of the Health Physics Society, January, 2009.
  23. C.M. Marianno, "Locating Illicit Radioactive Material: Instrumentation Design Considerations," 42nd Annual Mid-year Meeting of the Health Physics Society, January, 2009.
  24. Jesse Carter, E.G. Fu, B.M. Dvorak, N.D. Theodore, G.Xie, D.A. Lucca, M. Martin, M. Hollander, X. Zhang, and L. Shao, "Effects of ion irradiation in metallic glasses," Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B In Print. Available online 30 January 2009.
  25. Nan Li, E.G. Fu, H. Wang, A. Misra, R.G. Hoagland, J.J. Carter, Lin Shao, S.A. Maloy, and X. Zhang, "He Ion Irradiation Damage in Fe/W Nanolayer Films," Journal of Nuclear Materials In Press. Available online 14 February 2009.
  26. Y. Liao, K. Vierow, A. Dehbi, and S. Guentay, "Transition from Natural Convection for Steam-Gas Flow Condensing along a Vertical Plate ," International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 52, 366-375, 2009.

Publications from 2008

  1. R.G. McClarren and R.B. Lowrie, "The Effects of Slope Limiting on Asymptotic-Preserving Numerical Methods for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws," Journal of Computational Physics 227(23), 9711-9726 (2008).
  2. L. A. Braby, "A Solution to the Problem with Absorbed Dose," Nuclear Engineering and Technology 40(7), 533-538 (2008).
  3. Y. Wang, W. Bangerth, and J.C. Ragusa, "Three-dimensional h-adaptivity for the multigroup neutron diffusion equations," Progress in Nuclear Energy In Press. Available online 24 December 2008.
  4. E.G. Fu, J. Carter, G. Swadener, A. Misrac, L. Shao, H. Wang and X. Zhang, "Size dependent enhancement of helium ion irradiation tolerance in sputtered Cu/V nanolaminates," Journal of Nuclear Materials In Press. Available online December 2008.
  5. R.G. McClarren, "A Robust, High-order Implicit Monte Carlo Method for Thermal Radiative Transfer," Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, 98, 501, 2008.
  6. J. Morel, J. Densmore, J. Warsa, and R. Lowrie, "Linearized Stability Analysis of Two Time Discretizations for the Compton Scattering Fokker-Planck Equation," Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Proceedings of the American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting, Reno, NV, 9-13 November 2008.
  7. J.D. Densmore, J.S. Warsa, R.B. Lowrie, and J.E. Morel, "Linearized Stability Analysis of Two Time Discretizations for the Compton-Scattering Fokker-Planck Equation," Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Proceedings of the American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting, 99, 328-331 (2008).
  8. T. Rogers, and J.C. Ragusa, "PWR Fuel Assembly Optimization Using Simulated Annealing with TRANSLAT," Proceedings of the ANS Winter Meeting, Reno, NV, USA, November 9-13, 2008.
  9. Y. Wang, and J.C. Ragusa, "Progress in the Integration of 2D DG-FEM SN Transport Solver Xuthus into SCALE," Proceedings of the ANS Winter Meeting, Reno, NV, USA, November 9-13, 2008.
  10. Y. Wang, and J.C. Ragusa, "An Algorithm for Multi-Mesh and Multi-Irregularity from Adaptive Mesh Refinement with FEM," Proceedings of the ANS Winter Meeting, Reno, NV, USA, November 9-13, 2008.
  11. J.C. Ragusa, "A simple Hessian-based 3D mesh adaptation technique with applications to the multigroup diffusion equations," Annals of Nuclear Energy 35(11), 2006-2018 (2008).
  12. R.G. McClarren and R.B. Lowrie, "Manufactured Solutions for the P1 Radiation-Hydrodynamics Equations," Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 109(15), 2590-2602 (2008).
  13. C. Nie, Y. Zhou, W. H. Marlow, and Y. A. Hassan, "Self-diffusion coefficients of the metastable Lennard-Jones vapor," Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 20(41), 415105 (2008).
  14. A. S. Pasciak and J. R. Ford, "High-speed evaluation of track-structure Monte Carlo electron transport simulations," Physics in Medicine and Biology 53(19), 5539-5553 (2008).
  15. P.V. Tsvetkov, K. Vierow, K.L. Peddicord, J.C. Ragusa, S.M. McDeavitt, J.W. Poston, Sr., L. Shao, and G. Willems,, "Autonomous Multi-purpose Floating Power System with a Compact Static Pebble Bed Reactor," PHYSOR ‘08 – International Conference on the Physics of Reactors, Interlaken, Switzerland, September 14-19 (2008).
  16. G. Thoreson, R.G. McClarren, and J.H. Chang, "High Resolution Time Integration for Sn Radiation Transport," Proceedings of the International Conference on the Physics of Reactors, PHYSOR 2008, Interlaken, Switzerland, September 14-19, 2008.
  17. K. J. Hogan and K. Vierow, "A New Drift-Flux-Based Approach to Predict Flooding," Proceedings of the U.S. Japan Two Phase Flow Seminar, Santa Monica, CA, Sept. 2008.
  18. M. Solmos, K. J. Hogan, and K. Vierow, "Flooding Experiments and Modeling for Improved Reactor Safety," Proceedings of the U.S. Japan Two Phase Flow Seminar, Santa Monica, CA, Sept. 2008.
  19. Y. Wang, J. C. Ragusa, and M. DeHart, "An Unstructured Triangular Mesh Linear Discontinuous Solver for NEWT," Proceedings of the ANS International Conference on the Physics of Reactors: Nuclear Power: A Sustainable Resource (PHYSOR 2008 ), Interlaken, Switzerland, September 14-19, 2008.
  20. V. Mahadevan and J.C. Ragusa, "Hybrid schemes to compute several dominant eigenmodes in reactor analysis," Proceedings of the ANS International Conference on the Physics of Reactors: Nuclear Power: A Sustainable Resource (PHYSOR 2008 ), Interlaken, Switzerland, September 14-19, 2008.
  21. L. Shao, Y.Q. Wang, J.G. Swadener, M. Nastasi, P.E. Thompson, and N.D. Theodore, "Cracking in hydrogen ion-implanted Si/Si0.8Ge0.2/Si heterostructures," Applied Physics Letters 92, 061904 (2008).
  22. Z.F. Di, Y.Q. Wang, M. Nastasi, L. Shao, J.K. Lee, and N.D. Theodore, "Evidence for Ion Irradiation Induced Dislocation and Reconstruction of Si-H bonds in Hydrogen-implanted Silicon," Applied Physics Letters 93, 104103 (2008).
  23. L. Shao, P.E. Thompson, Q.Y. Chen, K.B. Ma, J.R. Liu, and Wei-Kan Chu, "High Thermal Stability of Vacancy Clusters Formed in MeV Si-self-ion-implanted Si," Applied Physics Letters 93, 041908 (2008).
  24. R.G. McClarren, T.M. Evans, R.B. Lowrie, and J.D. Densmore, "Semi-Implicit Time Integration for PN Thermal Radiative Transfer," Journal of Computational Physics 227(16), 7561-7586 (2008).
  25. R. Sanchez, J.C. Ragusa, and E. Masiello, "Asymptotic theory of the linear transport equation in anisotropic media," Journal of Mathematical Physics 49, 083504 (2008).
  26. P. Nelson, S. Wang, and E. Kee, "Dynamic Reliability Using entry-time approach for Maintenance of Nuclear Power Plants," Proceedings of the 26th International System Safety Conference, Vancouver, BC, 25-29 August 2008.
  27. D. E. Ames, II, A. B. Alajo, T. G. Lewis III, and P. Tsvetkov, "Spectrum Shifting as a Mechanism to Improve Performance of VHTRs with Advanced Actinide Fuels," Nuclear Engineering and Design 238(8), 1958-1964 (2008).
  28. L.G. Jacobsohn, B.L. Bennett, R.E. Muenchausen, M. Martin, and L. Shao, "Radioluminescence investigation of ion-irradiated phosphors," AIP Conference Proceeding for 19th International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry, Ft. Worth, Texas, 10-15 August 2008.
  29. E. P. Denadai, I. Rusakova, J. Carter, M. Martin, A. Aitkaliyeva, and L. Shao, "Defect characterization in He implanted Si," AIP Conference Proceeding for 19th International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry, Ft. Worth, Texas, 10-15 August 2008.
  30. A. Aitkaliyeva, L. Peng, D. Saenz, M. Martin, D. Wijesundera, X. Wang, W-K Chu, and L. Shao, "A study of irradiation stability of carbon nanotubes," AIP Conference Proceeding for 19th International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry, Ft. Worth, Texas, 10-15 August 2008.
  31. R.G. McClarren and J.P. Holloway, "Quasi-Linear Time Integration for the Pn Equations," Nuclear Science and Engineering 159(3), 330-337 (2008).
  32. C. Nie and W. H. Marlow, "Radial density distribution of the metastable supersaturated vapor via restricted ensemble simulations," Physical Review E 78(1), 12101 (2008).
  33. B. Bradley and J.C. Ragusa, "Plutonium and Minor Actinides Transmutation in Standard PWRs Fuel Assemblies," Proceedings of the ANS Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, 8-12 June 2008.  
  34. C. Guetersloh, L. Heilbronn, J. Miller, N. Elkhayari, A. Empl, M. LeBourgeois, B. W. Mayes, L. Pinsky, M. Christl, and E. Kuznetsov, "Shielding experiments with high-energy heavy ions for spaceflight applications," New Journal of Physics 10, 075007 (2008).
  35. S. Saavedra, W.S. Charlton, and A. Solodov, "Quantification of the Fissile Content of Incoming Spent Nuclear Fuel for the CETE Demonstration through Non-Destructive Assay Techniques," Proceedings of 49th Annual INMM Meeting, Nashville, TN, July 13-17, 2008.
  36. R. Metcalf, A. Bevill, W.S. Charlton, and R. Bean, "Safeguards Envelope: Previous Work and Examples," Proceedings of 49th Annual INMM Meeting, Nashville, TN, July 13-17, 2008.
  37. A.M. LaFleur, W.S. Charlton, H.O. Menlove, and M. Swinhoe, "Use of Self-Interrogation Neutron Resonance Densitometry (SINRD) to Measure the Fissile Content in Nuclear Fuel," Proceedings of 49th Annual INMM Meeting, Nashville, TN, July 13-17, 2008.
  38. P. Nelson and C. Sprecher, "What Determines the Extent of National Reliance on Civil Nuclear Power," Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting Institute for Nuclear Materials Management, Nashville, TN, July 13-17, 2008.
  39. Lin Shao, Z. Di, Y. Lin, Q.X. Jia, Y.Q. Wang, M. Nastasi, P.E. Thompson, N.D. Theodore, and P. Chu, "The Role of Strain in Hydrogenated Induced Cracking in Si/Si1-xGex/Si Structures," Applied Physics Letters 93, 041909 (2008).
  40. Y. Liao, K. Vierow, and J. T. Han , "MELCOR Validation against a PUMA Facility Main Steam Line Break Integral Test ," Proceedings of the International Conference for Advanced Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP-08), Anaheim, CA, June 2008.  
  41. P. Tsvetkov, A. B. Alajo, T. G. Lewis III, and D. E. Ames II, "Out-of-Core Fuel Cycle Characteristics of VHTRs with No On-Site Refueling," Proceedings of the Intern. Congr. Adv. Nucl. Power Plants (ICAPP 08), Anaheim, California, 8-12 June 2008.
  42. J. H. Sampson, G. Akabani, G. E. Archer, M. S. Berger, R. E. Coleman, A. H. Friedman, H. S. Friedman, K. Greer, J. E. Herndon, II, S. Kunwar, R. E. McLendon, A. Paolino, N. A. Petry, J. M. Provenzale, D. A. Reardon, T. Z. Wong, M. R. Zalutsky, I. Pastan, and D. D. Bigner, "Intracerebral infusion of an EGFR-targeted toxin in recurrent malignant brain tumors," Neuro-Oncology 10(3), 320-9, 2008.
  43. C. Nie, J. Geng, and W. Marlow , "The Free Energy of the Metastable Supersaturated Vapor Via Restricted Ensemble Simulations. II. Effects of Constraints and Comparison with Molecular Dynamics Simulations.," Journal of Chemical Physics 128(23), 234310 (2008).
  44. G. Gachon, M. Martin, J. Carter, M. Hollander, and L. Shao, "A systematic study on analysis-induced radiation damage in silicon during channeling Rutherford backscattering spectrometry analysis," Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 266(10), 2466-2469 (2008).
  45. L. Zhu, J. Chan, S. McCoy, J. Gelpey, B. Guo, K. Shim, N. D. Theodore, M. Martin, J. Carter, M. Hollander, and L. Shao, "Defect Characterization ion boron implanted silicon after flash annealing," Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 266(10), 2479-2482 (2008).
  46. M. Martin, P. E. Thompson, J. Carter, L. Zhu, M. Hollander, and L. Shao, "Damage creation in ion irradiated Si1-xGex/Si structures," Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 266(10), 2483-2485 (2008).
  47. J.W. Jung and W. D. Reece, "Dosimetric characterization of 142Pr glass seeds for brachytherapy," Applied Radiation and Isotopes 66, 441-449 (2008).
  48. C. Zeitlin, S. Guetersloh, L. Heilbronn, and J. Miller, "Fragmentation cross sections of medium-energy 35Cl, 40Ar, and 48Ti beams on elemental targets," Physical Review C 77, 034605 (2008).
  49. T.S. Bailey, M. L. Adams, B. Yang, and M. R. Zika, "A piecewise linear finite element discretization of the diffusion equation for arbitrary polyhedral grids," Journal of Computational Physics 8(1), 3738-3757 (2008).
  50. J. Vanamala, A. Glagolenko, P. Yang, R. J. Carroll, M. E. Murphy, R. A. Newman, J. R. Ford, L. A. Braby, R. S. Chapkin, N. D. Turner and J. R. Lupton, "Dietary fish oil and pectin enhance colonocyte apoptosis in part through suppression of PPARδ/PGE2 and elevation of PGE3," Carcinogenesis 29(4): 790-796 (2008).
  51. C.M. Marianno, "Dedicated FRMAC Public Monitoring Assets," National Radiological Preparedness Conference, April 2008.
  52. C.M. Marianno, "Pet Monitoring During a Radiological Emergency," National Radiological Preparedness Conference, April 2008.
  53. C.M. Marianno, "Conveying Uncertainty in FRMAC Map Products," National Radiological Preparedness Conference, April 2008.
  54. D. A. Reardon, M. R. Zalutsky, G. Akabani, R. E. Coleman, A. H. Friedman, J. E. Herndon, II, R. E. McLendon, C. N. Pegram, J. A. Quinn, J. N. Rich, J. J. Vredenburgh, A. Desjardins, S. Guruangan, S. Boulton, R. H. Raynor, J. M. Dowell, T. Z. Wong, X-G Zhao, H. S. Friedman, and D. D. Bigner , "A pilot study: 131I-Antitenascin monoclonal antibody 81c6 to deliver a 44-Gy resection cavity boost," Neuro-Oncology 10(2), 182-189, 2008.
  55. J. H. Sampson, G. Akabani, G. E. Archer, M. S. Berger, R. E. Coleman, A. H. Friedman, H. S. Friedman, K. Greer, J. E. Herndon, S. Kunwar, R. E. McLendon, A. Paolino, N. A. Petry, J. M. Provenzale, D. A. Reardon, T. Z. Wong, M. R. Zalutsky, I. Pastan, and D. D. Bigner, "Intracerebral infusion of an EGFR-targeted toxin in recurrent malignant brain tumors," Neuro-Oncology 10(3), 320-329, 2008.
  56. R. Metcalf, J.C. Ragusa, and R. Bean, "Safeguards Envelope: The First Steps," Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Facility Operations - Safeguards Interface, Portland, OR, March 30 - April 4, 2008.
  57. S. Chirayath, R. Metcalf, J.C. Ragusa, and P. Nelson, "Assessment of Proliferation Resistance Requirements for Fast-Reactor Fuel-Cycle Facilities," Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Facility Operations - Safeguards Interface, Portland, OR, March 30 - April 4, 2008.
  58. A.M. LaFleur, W.S. Charlton, H.O. Menlove, and M. Swinhoe, "Nondestructive Measurements of Fissile Material Using Self-Indication Neutron Resonance Absorption Densitometry (SINRAD)," Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Facility Operations - Safeguards Interface, Portland, OR, March 30 - April 4, 2008.
  59. L. Shao, "Toward high accuracy in channeling Rutherford backscattering spectrometry analysis," Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 266(6), 961-964 (2008).
  60. C. Nie, J. Geng, and W. Marlow , "Study of Thermal Properties of the Metastable Supersaturated Vapor with the Restricted Ensemble," Physica: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications 387(7), 1433-1438 (2008).
  61. C. Nie, Y. A. Hassan, and W. Marlow, "Discussion of Proposed Mechanisms of Thermal Conductivity Enhancement in Nanofluids," International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 51(5-6), 1342-1348 (2008).
  62. R.G. McClarren, J.P. Holloway, and T.A. Brunner, "Analytic P1 Solutions for Time-Dependent, Thermal Radiative Transfer in Several Geometries," Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 109(3), 389-403 (2008).
  63. S. Bragg-Sitton, R. Dickens, D. Dixon, R. Reid, , M. Adams, and J. Davis, "Advanced Thermal Simulator Testing: Thermal Analysis and Test Results," Proceedings of the Space Technology and Applications International Forum (STAIF-2008), Albuquerque, NM, 10-14 February 2008.
  64. C. Nie, J. Geng, and W. Marlow , "Study of thermal properties of the metastable supersaturated vapor with the integral equation method," Journal of Chemical Physics 128(5), 054305 (2008).
  65. R.G. McClarren, J.P. Holloway, and T.A. Brunner, "On Solutions to the Pn Equations for Thermal Radiative Transfer," Journal of Computational Physics 227(3), 2864-2885 (2008)
  66. W.H. Hsu, L. A. Braby , and W. D. Reece, "Detection System Built from Commercial Integrated Circuits for Real-Time Measurement of Radiation Dose and Quality Using the Variance Method," Radiation Protection Dosimetry 128(1), 5-1 (2008).
  67. K. Vierow, "Severe Accident Investigations and Modeling – Recent Progress and Issues ," Proceedings of the New Horizons in Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, Jan 7-8, 2008.  
  68. K. Hogan, H. Alkaabi, S. Revankar, R. K. Cole Jr., R. O. Gauntt, S. B. Rodriguez and K. Vierow, "MELCOR Analysis of High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Nuclear Reactors ," Proceedings of the India Society of Heat and Mass Transfer – American Society of Mechanical Engineers Conference, JNTU Hyderabad, India, Jan. 3-5, 2008.
  69. K. Vierow, "Enhancement of Nuclear Power Plant Safety by Condensation-driven passive heat removal systems," Thermal engineering in power systems. edited by R. S. Amano and B. Sunden (WIT Press: Southampton, 2008), pp.141-170.
  70. S. Bragg-Sitton, R. E.Dickens, J. T. Farmer, J. D. Davis, M. R. Adams, J. J. Martin, and K. L. Webster, "Heater Development, Fabrication, and Testing: Analysis of Fabricated Heaters," NASA Technical Report (NASA TM-2008-215466).

Publications from 2007

  1. M. R. Zalutsky, D. A. Reardon, G. Akabani, R. E. Coleman, A. H. Friedman, H. S. Friedman, J. E. Herndon, II, R. E. McLendon, C. N. Pegram, J. M. Provenzale, J. A. Quinn, J. N. Rich, J. J. redenburgh, A. Desjardins, S. Guruangan, S. Sathornsumettee, J. H. Sampson, T. Z. Wong, X-G Zhao, and D. D. Bigner., "Clinical Experience with α-Emitting Astatine-211: Treatment of Recurrent Brain Tumor Patients with 211At-labeled Chimeric 81C6 Anti-Tenascin Monoclonal Antibody 81C6," Journal of Nuclear Medicine 49(1), 30-38, 2007.
  2. Z. Di, Y.Q. Wang, M. Nastasi, F. Rossi, J-K. Lee, L. Shao, P.E. Thompson, "Investigation of stress-induced (100) platelet formation and surface exfoliation in plasma hydrogenated Si," Applied Physics Letters 91(24), 244101 (2007).
  3. R. Lowrie, T. Masser, R. McClarren, T. Urbatsch, C. Wingate, J. Wohlbier, and M. Clover, "Plans for and Progress Towards an Inertial Confinement Fusion Code from the Crestone Project," 49th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, Orlando, FL, November 2007.
  4. R.G. McClarren, T.M. Evans, and R.B. Lowrie, "Semi-Implicit Time Integration for the Pn Equations," Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, 97, 2007.
  5. J.C. Ragusa, R. Sanchez, and S. Santandrea, "Application of Duality Principles to Reflector Homogenization," Nuclear Science and Engineering 157(3), 299-315 (2007).
  6. J. Morel, T.-Y. Brian Yang, and James S. Warsa, "Linear Multifrequency-Grey Acceleration Recast for Preconditioned Krylov Iterations," Journal of Computational Physics 227(1), 244-263 (2007).
  7. S. D. Pillai and L. A. Braby, "Electronic Pasteurization," Advances in Thermal and Non-Thermal Food Preservation . edited by G. Tawari and V. K. Juneja (Blackwell Publishing: 2008), pp.195-202
  8. L. Valota, C. Kurwitz, A.Shephard, F. R. Best , "Microgravity Flow Pattern Identification Using Void Fraction Signals," International Journal of Multiphase Flow 33 (11), 1172-1185, 2007
  9. J. Carter, E. Fu, S.M. McDeavitt, X. Zhang, G. Xie and L. Shao, "Characterization of High Strength Alloys Formed by Ion Irradiation of Metallic Glasses," 6th Pacific Rim International Conference on Advanced Materials and Processing (PRICM-6), Jeju Island, Korea, November 5-9 (2007).
  10. S.M. McDeavitt, A. Parkison, A.R. Totemeier, and J.J. Wegener, "Fabrication of Cermet Nuclear Fuels Designed for the Transmutation of Transuranic Isotopes," 6th Pacific Rim International Conference on Advanced Materials and Processing (PRICM-6), Jeju Island, Korea, November 5-9 (2007).
  11. N. Brown, S. T. Revankar, K. Vierow, S. Rodriguez, R. Cole Jr., R. O. Gauntt , "Thermochemical Hydrogen Pant Coupled to High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor ," Proceedings of 12th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-12), Pittsburgh, PA, Oct., 2007.
  12. D. A. Knoll, R. B. Lowrie, and J. E. Morel, "Numerical Analysis of Time Integration Errors for Nonequilibrium Radiation Diffusion," Journal of Computational Physics 226(2), 1332-1347 (2007).
  13. P. Nelson, and S. Wang, "Dynamic reliability via computational solution of generalized state-transition equations for entry-time processes," Reliability Engineering and System Safety 92(9): 1281-1293 (2007).
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  16. S. McDeavitt, A. Parkison, A.R. Totemeier, and J.J. Wegener, "Fabrication of Cermet Nuclear Fuels Designed for the Transmutation of Transuranic Isotopes," Materials Science Forum 561-565, 1733-1736 (2007).
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  32. D. J. Sweeney and W. S. Charlton, "Physical Mechanisms for Fission Product Concentration Differences from Variations in Reactor Power History," Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Institute for Nuclear Materials Management, Tucson, AZ, July 8-12, 2007.
  33. D. J. Sweeney and W. S. Charlton, "Reactor Power History from Fission Product Signatures," Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Institute for Nuclear Materials Management, Tucson, AZ, July 8-12, 2007.
  34. T. V. K. Woddi, W. S. Charlton, P. Nelson, and J.C. Ragusa, "A Technical Study of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and the Three Stage Power Program of India for US-India Nuclear Cooperation," Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Institute for Nuclear Materials Management, Tucson, AZ, July 8-12, 2007.
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  36. A. Thornton and W.S. Charlton, "Characterization of a Portable Neutron Coincidence Counter," Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Institute for Nuclear Materials Management, Tucson, AZ, July 8-12, 2007.
  37. R. Hayes and Marianno, C.M., "The Next Generation Air Particle Detectors for the United States Navy," 52nd Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society, July 2007.
  38. C.M. Marianno and Hendricks, T.J., "The United States Department of Energy’s Aerial Measurement System," 52nd Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society, July 2007.
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  40. P. Tsvetkov, "Magnetic-Nuclear Propulsion/Power System (MAGNUS): Control and Heat Removal Options," Proceedings of the Space Nuclear Conference 2007, Boston, MA, 24-28 June 2007.
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  42. S. M. Bragg-Sitton, R. Dickens, R., D. and Dixon, "High Fidelity Thermal Simulators for Non-Nuclear Testing: Analysis and Initial Results," Proceedings of the Space Nuclear Conference (SNC-2007), Boston, MA, June 24-28, 2007.
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  44. R. E. McLendon, G. Akabani, H. S. Friedman, D. A. Reardon, L. Cleveland, I. Cokgor, J. E. Herndon II, C. Wikstrand, S. T. Boulton, A. H. Friedman, D. D. Bigner, and M. R. Zalutsky., "Tumor Resection Cavity Administered Iodine-131-Labeled Antitenascin 81C6 Radioimmunotherapy in Patients with Malignant Glioma: Neuropathology Aspects," Nuclear Medicine and Biology 34(4), 405-13, 2007.
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  46. A.M. LaFleur and W.S. Charlton, "Advancing Methods for Providing Attribution for the HEU Used in a Terrorist Nuclear Weapon," 2007 Annual Meeting of the European Safeguards Research and Development Association (ESARDA), Aix-en-Provence, France, May 21-24, 2007.
  47. K.A. Miller and W.S. Charlton, "An Inverse Transport Approach to Radiation Source Location for Border Security," 2007 Annual Meeting of the European Safeguards Research and Development Association (ESARDA), Aix-en-Provence, France, May 21-24, 2007.
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  55. A. Siegel, T. Tautges, A. Caceres, D. Kaushik, P. Fischer, G. Palmiotti, M. Smith, and J. Ragusa, "Software Design of SHARP," Joint International Topical meeting on Mathematics and Computation and Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications, Monterrey, CA, 15-19 April 2007.
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  60. J. S. Warsa and J. E. Morel, "Solution Algorithms for a Pn−1-Equivalent Sn Angular Discretization of the Transport Equation in One-Dimensional Spherical Coordinates," Joint International Topical meeting on Mathematics and Computation and Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications, Monterrey, CA, 15-19 April 2007.
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  65. R.G. McClarren, J.P. Holloway, T.A. Brunner, and T.A. Mehlhorn, "A Quasi-Linear Implicit Riemann Solver for the Time-Dependent Pn Equations," Nuclear Science and Engineering 155(2), 290-299 (2007).
  66. J. E. Morel, J. S. Warsa, and A. Gonzalez-Aller, "A Lumped Linear-Discontinuous Spatial Discretization Scheme for Sn Calculations in R − Z Geometry," Nuclear Science and Engineering 155(2), 168-178 (2007).
  67. S. Vemulapalli, S. D. Metzler, G. Akabani, N. A. Petry, N. J. Niehaus, X. Liu, N. H. Patil, K. L. Greer, R. J. Jaszczak, R. E. Coleman, C. Dong, P.J. Goldschmidt-Clermont, and B. B. Chin, "Cell Therapy in Murine Atherosclerosis: In Vivo Imaging with High-Resolution Helical SPECT," Radiology 242(1), 198-207, 2007.
  68. S. M. Bragg-Sitton, R. Dickens, D. Dixon, R. Kapernick, M. Adams, and J. Davis, "Development of High Fidelity, Fuel-Like Thermal Simulators for Non-Nuclear Testing," Proceedings of the Space Technology and Applications International Forum (STAIF-2007), Albuquerque, NM, February 2007.
  69. S.M. McDeavitt, Y. Xu, T.J. Downar, and A.A. Solomon, "Zirconium Matrix Cermet for a Mixed Uranium-Thorium Oxide Fuel in a SBWR," Nuclear Technology 157(1), 37-52 (2007).
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