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Volume 200

Number 2

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Foreword: Special Issue Featuring Papers from the 2024 ANS Radiation Protection and Shielding Division Topical Meeting(Robert Hayes, Vaibhav Sinha, Michael Reichenberger, Mathieu Dupont, Lawrence Heilbronn)

On MCNP Stochastic Volume Estimation Normalization

Joel A. Kulesza

Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 200 / Number 2 / February 2026 / Pages 241-245

Research Article / dx.doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2483123

SCALE Shielding Calculations for Advanced Reactor Accident Scenarios

Georgeta Radulescu, Donny Hartanto, Friederike Bostelmann, William A. Wieselquist

Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 200 / Number 2 / February 2026 / Pages 246-256

Research Article / dx.doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2503125

Toward Efficient Nuclear Data Uncertainty Quantification in Radiation Shielding Calculations

Juan A. Monleon de la Lluvia, Mariya Brovchenko, Dimitri Rochman, Eric Dumonteil

Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 200 / Number 2 / February 2026 / Pages 257-279

Research Article / dx.doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2510048

Shielding Material Performance in a Preconcept Spherical Tokamak Power Plant

Kamya Chandrasekhar, Alexander Lin-Vines, Christopher Wilson, Gurdeep Singh Kamal, Mayank Rajput

Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 200 / Number 2 / February 2026 / Pages 280-292

Research Article / dx.doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2548107

Methodologies and Shielding Analysis for the Design of Activated Cooling Water Components in Spallation Neutron Systems

Ahmad M. Ibrahim, Franz X. Gallmeier, Tucker C. McClanahan, Don Montierth, Igor Remec, Irina I. Popova

Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 200 / Number 2 / February 2026 / Pages 293-311

Research Article / dx.doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2545733

Advancing the MCNP Unstructured Mesh Calculations at ORNL’s Second Target Station with Attila4MC-Cottonwood^TM

Lukas Zavorka, Igor Remec, Andrew Cooper, Jonathan Rogers, Gregory Failla

Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 200 / Number 2 / February 2026 / Pages 312-319

Research Article / dx.doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2551385

Analysis of Second Target Station Target Removal Dose Rates

Tucker C. McClanahan, Igor Remec

Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 200 / Number 2 / February 2026 / Pages 320-334

Research Article / dx.doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2515656

Optimal Additive Dose Distributions for Minimizing Dose Estimate Error in Retrospective and Emergency Dosimetry with Heteroscedastic Effects

Melody G. Polk, Robert B. Hayes

Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 200 / Number 2 / February 2026 / Pages 335-347

Research Article / dx.doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2480858

Study on Fission Decay Width of Superheavy Nuclei ²⁹⁸119 Synthesized Through the Various Fusion Reactions

N. Manjunatha, H. C. Manjunatha, N. Sowmya, T. Ganesh, T. Nandi

Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 200 / Number 2 / February 2026 / Pages 348-356

Regular Research Article / dx.doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2483595

Nonequilibrium Thermodynamic Analysis of High-Energy Neutron Scattering

Takashi Hirai, Shin Nakatani, Motoyasu Sato

Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 200 / Number 2 / February 2026 / Pages 357-365

Regular Research Article / dx.doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2486899

Image Style Transfer–Based High- and Low-Frequency Component Synthesis Neural Architecture for Low-Dose Computed Tomography Denoising

Shan Liao, Li Yang, Yanghui Wang, Sangang Li, Yi Cheng

Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 200 / Number 2 / February 2026 / Pages 366-382

Regular Research Article / dx.doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2483120

Accelerating Long-Term Xenon Dynamics Prediction: A Reduced-Order Hybrid Recurrent Neural Network with Intrinsic Physics

Helin Gong, Qing Li

Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 200 / Number 2 / February 2026 / Pages 383-403

Regular Research Article / dx.doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2487382

Development of Multiphysics Tests for Verification of Dry Storage Cask Content via the BERRU Framework

Zi Liang Tan, Eugene Shwageraus

Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 200 / Number 2 / February 2026 / Pages 404-428

Regular Research Article / dx.doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2483081

Statistical Study of Stress and Strain in Matrix of UO₂-Zr Plate Type Fuel

S. Mirzaee, M. Aghaie

Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 200 / Number 2 / February 2026 / Pages 429-443

Regular Research Article / dx.doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2484878

Automated Hybrid Variance Reduction on Advanced Architectures in the Shift Monte Carlo Code

Thomas M. Evans, Katherine E. Royston, Steven P. Hamilton, Gregory G. Davidson, Elliott Biondo, Seth R. Johnson

Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 200 / Number 2 / February 2026 / Pages 444-470

Regular Research Article / dx.doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2484511

Validation and Verification of Serpent-Griffin Computational Sequence Using the SNAP 8 Experimental Reactor Dry Experiments

Isaac Naupa, Samuel Garcia, Ben Lindley, Stefano Terlizzi, Dan Kotlyar

Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 200 / Number 2 / February 2026 / Pages 471-487

Regular Research Article / dx.doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2483071