Ninth Workshop on Shielding Aspects of Accelerators, Targets and Irradiation Facilities (SATIF-9)

Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Spallation Neutron Source
Oak Ridge, TN, USA

 

21-23 April 2008

Particle accelerators have evolved over the last decades from simple devices to powerful machines and are having an increasingly important impact on research, technology and lifestyle. Today they cover a wide range of applications including Material Science and medical applications. In recent years, requirements from new technological and research applications have emerged and the number of accelerator facilities in operation, being commissioned, designed or planned has significantly increased. Their parameters (such as the beam energy, beam currents and intensities, targets composition, etc.) vary widely giving rise to new radiation shielding aspects and problems. 

The activities of the Expert Group on Shielding Aspects of Accelerators, Targets and Irradiation Facilities (SATIF) are sponsored by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and its Nuclear Science Committee (NSC) and co-sponsored by the Radiation Safety Information Computational Center (RSICC) and the Division of Radiation Science and Technology of the Atomic Society of Japan. The main objectives of SATIF meetings are to: 

  • promote the exchange of information among experts in the field of accelerator shielding and related topics;
  • Identify areas where international co-operation can be fruitful; and
  • carry out a programme of work in order to achieve progress in specific priority areas.
In this context, and on behalf of its Scientific and Organising Committee, we announce that the Ninth Workshop on Shielding Aspects of Accelerators, Targets and Irradiation Facilities (SATIF-9) took place at the ORNL Spallation Neutron Source from 21-23 April 2008.

Related conference

This meeting was held in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Radiation Shielding (ICRS-11) and the 15th Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division (RPSD-2008) of the American Nuclear Society, Callaway Gardens, Pine Mountain, Georgia, USA, scheduled for 13-18 April 2008.

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Co-sponsoring organisations

Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA)   

Radiation Safety Information Computational Center (RSICC)   

The Division of Radiation Science and Technology of Atomic Energy Society of Japan    

Spallation Neutron Source (SNS)

Contact information
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Target Systems,  Bdg 8600
Spallation Neutron Source, SNS
Bethel Valley Road
OAK RIDGE, TN 37830-6474
United States of America
  or  NEA Data Bank 
12 Bd des Iles 
92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux 
France 

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Target Systems,  Bdg 8600
Spallation Neutron Source, SNS
Bethel Valley Road
OAK RIDGE, TN 37830-6474
United States of America

or 

NEA Data Bank 
12 Bd des Iles 
92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux 
France