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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.
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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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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.
Rudy J. M. Konings, Wout M. P. Franken, Rainer P. Conrad, Jean-Francois Gueugnon, Jean-Claude Spirlet
Nuclear Technology | Volume 117 | Number 3 | March 1997 | Pages 293-298
Technical Paper | Nuclear Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35343
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Irradiation tests of the transmutation of the fission products technetium and iodine are performed in the High Flux Reactor at Petten. Samples of technetium metal (99Tc) and of three different metal iodides (cerium triiodide, sodium iodide, and lead diiodide, containing the stable 127l isotope) are irradiated during eight reactor cycles (192.95 full-power days, corresponding to a neutron fluence of 2 × 1026 m-2). Postirradiation examination is performed to measure the transmutation rate and to investigate the material behavior during irradiation.
