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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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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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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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High-temperature plumbing and advanced reactors
The use of nuclear fission power and its role in impacting climate change is hotly debated. Fission advocates argue that short-term solutions would involve the rapid deployment of Gen III+ nuclear reactors, like Vogtle-3 and -4, while long-term climate change impact would rely on the creation and implementation of Gen IV reactors, “inherently safe” reactors that use passive laws of physics and chemistry rather than active controls such as valves and pumps to operate safely. While Gen IV reactors vary in many ways, one thing unites nearly all of them: the use of exotic, high-temperature coolants. These fluids, like molten salts and liquid metals, can enable reactor engineers to design much safer nuclear reactors—ultimately because the boiling point of each fluid is extremely high. Fluids that remain liquid over large temperature ranges can provide good heat transfer through many demanding conditions, all with minimal pressurization. Although the most apparent use for these fluids is advanced fission power, they have the potential to be applied to other power generation sources such as fusion, thermal storage, solar, or high-temperature process heat.1–3
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Tuesday, June 14, 2022|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Malibu
Session Chair:
J. Rory Kennedy
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Kenneth J. Geelhood
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In-Situ High-Energy X-Ray Diffraction Study on Deformation Behavior of Neutron-Irradiated Fe-9%Cr
Xuan Zhang (ANL), Dominic Piedmont (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), James F. Stubbins (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Jun-Sang Park (ANL), Peter Kenesei (ANL), Jonathan Almer (ANL), Meimei Li (ANL)
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In Situ Synchrotron Radiation Diffraction Study of Neutron-Irradiated Yttrium Hydrides During Thermal Treatments
M. Nedim Cinbiz (INL), Mehmet Topsakal (Brookhaven ), Annabelle Le Coq (ORNL), Kory Linton (ORNL)
Elemental Segregation and Precipitation After Ion-Irradiation to High Damages in Alloy 709
Dominic Piedmont (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Xiang Liu (Zhejiang Univ.), Hyosim Kim (LANL), Frank Graner (TAMU), Lin Shao (TAMU), T.-L. Sham (ANL), James Stubbins (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
High Throughput Study of Hardening and Void Swelling in Ion Irradiated High Entropy Alloys
Benoit Queylat (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Michael Moorehead (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Phalgun Nelaturu (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Nathan Curtis (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Dan Thoma (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Mukesh Bacchav (INL), Dane Morgan (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Adrien Couet (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Presented by Hongliang Zhang (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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