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
NNSA awards BWXT $1.5B defense fuels contract
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration has awarded BWX Technologies a contract valued at $1.5 billion to build a Domestic Uranium Enrichment Centrifuge Experiment (DUECE) pilot plant in Tennessee in support of the administration’s efforts to build out a domestic supply of unobligated enriched uranium for defense-related nuclear fuel.
Klaus Janberg, Harry Spilker
Nuclear Technology | Volume 121 | Number 2 | February 1998 | Pages 136-147
Technical Paper | German Direct Disposal Project | doi.org/10.13182/NT98-A2826
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In Germany, progress has been made in the development of a cask system for final disposal of spent fuel. The requirements for a final disposal cask and the planning requirements for a final repository are discussed, and a cask system is described that meets these requirements. Besides the description of the cask system and the planned inventory, the results of the shielding, criticality, and thermal calculations are described, as well as the results of the drop tests that have been performed with the cask. As a further development, a consolidated spent-fuel canister is described.
