[Seminar] Engineering & Isotope Production: Navigating complex engineering challenges at the LANL Isotope Production Facility - Department of Nuclear Engineering [Seminar] Engineering & Isotope Production: Navigating complex engineering challenges at the LANL Isotope Production Facility - Department of Nuclear Engineering

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[Seminar] Engineering & Isotope Production: Navigating complex engineering challenges at the LANL Isotope Production Facility

April 7, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

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Dr. Ellen M. O’Brien
Staff Scientist
Isotope Program
Los Alamos National Laboratory

 

Abstract

At the Isotope Production Facility (IPF) at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) linear accelerator, protons are used to bombard a variety of target materials, producing radionuclides for a wide array of medical, industrial, and R&D applications. These targets are subjected to enormous head loads and exist in an inaccessible and extremely radioactive environment. The ability to understand and predict the performance of these targets given the inaccessible radiation environment and lack of available experimental data creates a complex engineering and nuclear physics challenge. This talk will cover the broad strokes of the Isotope Production Facility, the unique and exciting challenges we face, and the research avenues we are pursuing in order to both understand and predict the behavior of our system. More information about the LANL Isotope Program can be found at: https://www.lanl.gov/science-innovation/science-programs/office-of-science-programs/isotopes/index.php

Biography

Ellen O’Brien has been a staff member in the Isotope Program at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) since May of 2019. Her graduate (North Carolina State University) work in the field of nuclear engineering focused on modeling the highly interdependent multiphysics behavior of isotope production targetry. She is currently working on various projects to understand the complex and interrelated targetry physics driving isotope production as well as assisting in the conduction of experiments to produce novel isotopes and collect cross section data for isotope production.

 

 

Thursday, April 7. 2022
4:00 pm seminar

Hybrid Option  (Speaker is in person)

zoom (link upon request)
or
Room 1202 Burlington Labs

 

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Date:
April 7, 2022
Time:
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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