ANS is committed to advancing, fostering, and promoting the development and application of nuclear sciences and technologies to benefit society.
Explore the many uses for nuclear science and its impact on energy, the environment, healthcare, food, and more.
Explore membership for yourself or for your organization.
Conference Spotlight
2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
Latest Magazine Issues
Sep 2025
Jan 2025
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
October 2025
Nuclear Technology
September 2025
Fusion Science and Technology
Latest News
ANS continues to expand its certificate offerings
It’s almost been a full year since the American Nuclear Society held its inaugural section of Nuclear 101, a comprehensive certificate course on the basics of the nuclear field. Offered at the 2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo, that first sold-out course marked a massive milestone in the Society’s expanding work in professional development and certification.
X. R. Wang, S. Malang, M. S. Tillack, ARIES Team
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 1 | July 2011 | Pages 218-222
Divertor & High Heat Flux Components | Proceedings of the Nineteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) (Part 1) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12355
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
This paper considers a combination of ARIES modular finger concept and a design with helium channels in a thick plate. Multiple-jet cooling at a back side of a plasma facing surface is employed in this concept. The plasma facing surface is subdivided into a large number of small hexagonal modules, similar to the EU finger concept. Such a modularization reduces thermal stresses and allows therefore maximum surface heat flux of 10 MW/m2 at least. A solution has been found allowing brazing the fingers made of a W-alloy directly into the W-plate, avoiding in this way the connection of dissimilar materials with largely different thermal expansion coefficients. For an increase in reliability, double walled thimbles are used in the most critical region, providing an additional barrier against leaks of the high pressure helium. Thermal-mechanical calculations confirmed the expected high performance of the concept with the maximum allowable heat flux > 10 MW/m2 with all the components staying in the elastic regime. Extensive analyses of non-linear materials responses, such as plastic deformation (yield) are performed to allow the materials to be pushed beyond 3Sm in order to determine the maximum allowable heat flux can be.