Bulletin of the American Physical Society
Fall 2022 Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics
Volume 67, Number 17
Thursday–Sunday, October 27–30, 2022; Time Zone: Central Daylight Time, USA; New Orleans, Louisiana
Session PK: Mini-Symposium: Don't Look Up: Nuclear Data for Planetary Defense and Space Exploration
10:30 AM–12:18 PM,
Sunday, October 30, 2022
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Room: Imperial 5AB
Chair: Patrick Peplowski, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
Abstract: PK.00004 : Preventing the Anthropocene Extinction with Nuclear Data*
11:30 AM–11:42 AM
Presenter:
Amber C Lauer-Coles
(Brookhaven)
Author:
Amber C Lauer-Coles
(Brookhaven)
Collaboration:
NNDC
The possibility of an extinction level event due to galactic threats like solar storms, asteroid impact, Super Novae, and other phenomena, is 100% given a sufficient timescale. The longer mankind inhabits Earth, the more the probability that we will experience such an event rises. From a biological perspective, a major component of all these threats is radiation. Moreover, of all the potential methods of avoiding an Anthropocene extinction, preparation will rely heavily on nuclear methods. The NNDC store of nuclear data will be a valuable resource in engineering the safety of mankind as we attempt to graduate through "The Great Filter”. This presentation will discuss the present knowledge of threats and prevention and the nuclear data that supports this knowledge. We will also discuss the state of the nuclear data itself. As the sources of nuclear data can vary, we can also pinpoint useful experiments in the near-term that can improve our chances of survival.
*The work at Brookhaven National Laboratory was sponsored by the Office of NuclearPhysics, Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No.DE-AC02-98CH10886 with Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC.
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