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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.
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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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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!
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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.
Yoshio Shimakawa, Shigeo Kasai, Mamoru Konomura, Mikio Toda
Nuclear Technology | Volume 140 | Number 1 | October 2002 | Pages 1-17
Technical Paper | Fission Reactors | doi.org/10.13182/NT02-A3319
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An innovative concept of a sodium-cooled reactor (the Advanced Loop-Type Fast Reactor) to pursue high economic competitiveness has been developed.Measures to reduce cost adopted in the design are compact design of reactor structure, shortening of piping, reduction of loop number, and integration of components. These design measures are expected to be realized by introducing some innovative technologies (12Cr steel with high strength, advanced elevated temperature structural design standards, three-dimensional seismic isolation, and recriticality free technology), which have the potential to be put to practical use by 2015, and by taking into account the desirable characteristics of sodium coolant (operability in a low-pressure system and excellent heat transfer characteristics).By drastically decreasing the amount of materials through these measures, it is expected that the construction cost will be reduced to below 200 000 yen/kW(electric), i.e., below two-thirds times that of light water reactors at present. The potential to realize this plant concept has been obtained through evaluations of major design issues concerning safety, structural integrity, and thermal hydraulics.