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.
Division Spotlight
Accelerator Applications
The division was organized to promote the advancement of knowledge of the use of particle accelerator technologies for nuclear and other applications. It focuses on production of neutrons and other particles, utilization of these particles for scientific or industrial purposes, such as the production or destruction of radionuclides significant to energy, medicine, defense or other endeavors, as well as imaging and diagnostics.
Meeting Spotlight
2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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
Apr 2024
Jan 2024
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
May 2024
Nuclear Technology
Fusion Science and Technology
Latest News
College students help develop waste measuring device at Hanford
A partnership between Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) and Washington State University has resulted in the development of a device to measure radioactive and chemical tank waste at the Hanford Site. WRPS is the contractor at Hanford for the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management.
A. K. Prinja, STEWART J. ZWEBEN
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 12 | Number 3 | November 1987 | Pages 428-436
Technical Paper | Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST87-A25075
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
It is proposed that the overheating of tokamak limiters can be controlled by introducing a strong local source of neutral H2 directly at that limiter to convert the incident particle energy into isotropic radiation. The neutral influx rate required to substantially reduce the heat flux to the limiter is calculated as a function of the incident plasma parameters using a simplified one-dimensional fluid model Application of this scheme to large tokamaks is discussed.
