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
PR: American Nuclear Society welcomes Senate confirmation of Ted Garrish as the DOE’s nuclear energy secretary
Washington, D.C. — The American Nuclear Society (ANS) applauds the U.S. Senate's confirmation of Theodore “Ted” Garrish as Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
“On behalf of over 11,000 professionals in the fields of nuclear science and technology, the American Nuclear Society congratulates Mr. Garrish on being confirmed by the Senate to once again lead the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy,” said ANS President H.M. "Hash" Hashemian.
S. K. Ho, L. John Perkins, J. H. Hammer
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 17 | Number 4 | July 1990 | Pages 658-660
Technical Note | Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29198
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The possibility of applying compact toroids (CTs) to drive current via helicity injection in an engineering test reactor tokamak is considered. Some preliminary calculations for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor are presented and it is shown that plasma gain Q values (i.e., fusion power/injected CT power) in an unoptimized system may be of the order of 10 to 40, depending on the CT/tokamak interaction processes.