Nuclear Transport: Beginning to Gel?

Gellular transport

JCB • VOLUME 175 • NUMBER 5 • 2006 678 Gellular transport N uclear pores are plugged with a protein gel, say Steffen Frey, Ralf Richter, and Dirk Görlich (Universität Heidelberg, Germany). The researchers succeeded in forming the gel in vitro and believe that in vivo it forms a hydrophobic mesh—a mesh that can be breached only by small proteins or by the hydrophobic nuclear transport receptors ...

Investigation of the required thickness of thorium spent fuel lead transport cask depending on different fuel burnups and cooling times

Thorium fuels have attracted researcher’s attention due to the reduction of uranium deposits in the world, more abundances than uranium, and the ability to be breeding in thermal and fast reactors. This study aimed to investigate the radiation safety and the amount of necessary shielding for the transportation of spent thorium fuel in the Tehran Research Reactor. The ORIGEN and MCNPX computatio...

An investigation into the potential applicability of gel dosimeters for dosimetry in boron neutron capture therapy

Background: The aim of this work was to establish how well gel dosimeters performed, as substitutes for brain tissue compared with standard phantom materials such as water, polymethyl-methacrylate (or PMMA), A150 plastic and TE- liquid phantom material for dosimetry of neutron beams in boron neutron capture therapy. Materials and Methods: Thermal neutron fluence, photon dose and epithermal neu...

Numerical Simulation of Transport Phenomena in Nuclear Cores

Numerical Simulation of Transport Phenomena in Nuclear Cores