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Thermal Hydraulics
The division provides a forum for focused technical dialogue on thermal hydraulic technology in the nuclear industry. Specifically, this will include heat transfer and fluid mechanics involved in the utilization of nuclear energy. It is intended to attract the highest quality of theoretical and experimental work to ANS, including research on basic phenomena and application to nuclear system design.
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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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Commercial nuclear innovation "new space" age
In early 2006, a start-up company launched a small rocket from a tiny island in the Pacific. It exploded, showering the island with debris. A year later, a second launch attempt sent a rocket to space but failed to make orbit, burning up in the atmosphere. Another year brought a third attempt—and a third failure. The following month, in September 2008, the company used the last of its funds to launch a fourth rocket. It reached orbit, making history as the first privately funded liquid-fueled rocket to do so.
Ronald E. Mizia, Tedd E. Lister, Patrick J. Pinhero, Tammy L. Trowbridge, William L. Hurt, Charles V. Robino, John J. Stephens, Jr., John N. DuPont
Nuclear Technology | Volume 155 | Number 2 | August 2006 | Pages 133-148
Technical Paper | Materials | doi.org/10.13182/NT06-A3752
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The U.S. Department of Energy requires nuclear criticality control measures for storage of its highly enriched spent nuclear fuel. A new alloy based on the Ni-Cr-Mo alloy system with a gadolinium addition has been developed. Gadolinium has been chosen as the neutron absorption alloying element because of its high thermal neutron absorption cross section. The metallurgical development, mechanical and physical properties, thermal neutron absorption properties, and accelerated corrosion-testing performance of this Ni-Cr-Mo-Gd alloy is described. A brief comparison is also included of the corrosion performance of this alloy as compared to borated stainless steel, which is commonly used as a neutron-absorbing, structural alloy.