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
Education, Training & Workforce Development
The Education, Training & Workforce Development Division provides communication among the academic, industrial, and governmental communities through the exchange of views and information on matters related to education, training and workforce development in nuclear and radiological science, engineering, and technology. Industry leaders, education and training professionals, and interested students work together through Society-sponsored meetings and publications, to enrich their professional development, to educate the general public, and to advance nuclear and radiological science and engineering.
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
May 2024
Jan 2024
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
June 2024
Nuclear Technology
Fusion Science and Technology
Latest News
Proving DRACO will deliver
The United States is now closer than it has been in over five decades to launching the first nuclear thermal rocket into space, thanks to DRACO—the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Orbit.
Th. Pelletier, P. Giroux, M. Maj
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 2 | March 1992 | Pages 560-565
Safety; Measurement and Accountability; Operation and Maintenance; Application | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29806
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
With a view to reprocessing the organic products originating in the tritiated compounds and tritium handling facilities, an industrial line was developed and constructed for specific treatment and packaging of such products. Decontamination is based on a drying process using dry vapor, which results in a decontamination factor of 80%. Furthermore, the volume of the products to be stored is reduced by a factor of 8 owing to waste compaction. This industrial line also cuts down the degassing rate of the waste storage drums which allows placing them on LLA interim storage sites, thus significantly reducing storage costs. Mention should be made that it also may provide to recover the resulting tritiated water for its further reprocessing.