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
2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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
Dec 2025
Jul 2025
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
January 2026
Nuclear Technology
December 2025
Fusion Science and Technology
November 2025
Latest News
AI at work: Southern Nuclear’s adoption of Copilot agents drives fleet forward
Southern Nuclear is leading the charge in artificial intelligence integration, with employee-developed applications driving efficiencies in maintenance, operations, safety, and performance.
The tools span all roles within the company, with thousands of documented uses throughout the fleet, including improved maintenance efficiency, risk awareness in maintenance activities, and better-informed decision-making. The data-intensive process of preparing for and executing maintenance operations is streamlined by leveraging AI to put the right information at the fingertips for maintenance leaders, planners, schedulers, engineers, and technicians.
M. E. Sawan, H. M. Attaya
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1437-1442
Blanket Neutronic | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A39968
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Neutronics analysis is presented for a compact high wall loading (HWL) tokamak reactor with a major radius of 2.6 m, an aspect ratio of 4.33 and a fusion power of 1025 MW. A normal bean coil is used to achieve a high β value of 20%. The peak and average wall loadings are 12 and 8.7 MW/m2. No breeding blanket is used on the inboard side. The impact of using different materials on the overall TBR is assessed. Despite the limited breeding blanket coverage, an overall TBR > 1.05 is obtained when a 10 cm thick layer of a neutron multiplier is used on the inboard side above and below the bean coil. The total reactor thermal power is ∼ 1300 MW.
