Conference Scope

This conference is a collaboration of the 11^th International Conference on Radiation Shielding (ICRS-11) and the 15^th Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division (RPSD-2008) of the American Nuclear Society.

With this conference we celebrate the first 50 years of the International Conference on Radiation Shielding. The first meeting was held in 1958 at Cambridge, UK. Some of the more recent conferences were held in the following locations: 

Location	Year
Tokyo, Japan	1983
Bournemouth, UK	1989
Arlington, Tx, USA	1994
Tsukuba, Japan	1999
Funchal, Madeira, Portugal	2004

During the past 50 years much progress has been made in the understanding and modeling of particle and ionizing radiation shielding issues. With the increasing range of radiation applications, the need for continually addressing emerging issues exists. The increased scope of this conference over the years is clearly shown in the published proceedings.

This conference explores the scientific, technological and engineering issues associated with radiation shielding in its broadest context, including nuclear energy systems, accelerator facilities, space and other radiation environments. It is one of the premier international radiation shielding events, regularly drawing hundreds of the world’s top scientists and engineers.

The technical program will be comprised of plenary sessions, parallel oral technical sessions and poster sessions.

Topics

Accelerator Shielding

Aircraft Dosimetry Issues

Shielding Benchmarks

Electron-Photon Data

Monte Carlo Methods and Applications

Medical Applications

Methods and Applications

Electron Facilities Accelerators

High-Energy Accelerators

Intermediate-Energy Facilities

Lower Energy Facilities

Nuclear Data

Advanced Phantoms for Radiation Dosimetry

Nuclear Modeling for Heavy Charged Particle Transport

Activation and Transportation Characterization Calculations

Radiation Detection and Measurements

Residual Activity

Radiation Metrology and Regulations

Radiation Protection

Regulations and Reactor Shielding

Shielding of Spallation Sources and Related Facilities

Radiation Protection Issues and Methods for Deep Space Exploration

Transmutation and Storage of Radioactive Materials

Deterministic Methods

Hybrid Methods

Shielding of Synchrotron Light Sources

Dosimetry Issues

Transport Methods for Applications in Computational Medical Physics