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Division Spotlight
Isotopes & Radiation
Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
Meeting Spotlight
International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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!
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Fusion Science and Technology
Latest News
Two updated standards on criticality safety published
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) recently approved two new American Nuclear Society standards covering different aspects of nuclear criticality safety (NCS).
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE)
Technical Session
Wednesday, June 15, 2022|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Huntington B/C
Session Chair:
Brian Grierson (General Atomics)
Alternate Chair:
Leigh Winfrey
Session Organizer:
Rajesh Maingi
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Progress in a US-Based Liquid Metal Plasma-Facing Component Design Activity for a Fusion Nuclear Science Facility
Rajesh Maingi (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Daniel E. Andruczyk (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Davide Curreli (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), M.S. Islam (ORNL), Charles E. Kessel (ORNL), Andrei Khodak (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Egemen Kolemen (PPPL), Jeremy Lore (ORNL), Daniel O'Dea (UIUC), Francisco Paenz (PU), Bruce A. Pint (ORNL), Rabel Rizkallah (UIUC), Marie Romedenne (UT-Battelle ORNL), Sergey Smolentsev (ORNL), Zhen Sun (PPPL), Brian Wynne (PU), Dennis L. Youchison (ORNL)
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Overview of Liquid Metal PFC R&D at UIUC
Daniel E. Andruczyk (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Rabel Rizkallah (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Daniel O'Dea (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Andrew Shone (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Sam Smith (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Brandon E. Kamiyama (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Rajesh Maingi (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Chuck E. Kessel (ORNL), Sergey Smolentsev (Univ. California, Los Angeles), Thomas Morgan (Dutch Institute For Fundamental Energy Research), Fabio Romano (Dutch Institute For Fundamental Energy Research)
Design and MHD Thermofluids Analysis for an Open-Surface Fast-Flow Liquid Lithium Divertor
Sergey Smolentsev (Univ. California, Los Angeles), Charles E. Kessel (ORNL), Jeremy Lore (ORNL), Rajesh Maingi (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
Experiments and Simulations of Free Surface Liquid Metal Flow under Magnetohydrodynamic Conditions at LMX-U
Egemen Kolemen (Princeton Univ.), Andrei Khodak (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Francisco J. Saenz Castro (Princeton Univ.), Jabir A. Salam (Kyushu Univ.), Sergey Smolentsev (Univ. California, Los Angeles), Zhen Sun (PPPL), Brian Wynne (Princeton Univ.)
Plasma Boundary Response Calculations for a Fast Flow Liquid Lithium Divertor
Jeremy Lore (ORNL), M.S. Islam (ORNL), Charles E. Kessel (ORNL), Davide Curreli (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Rajesh Maingi (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), M. Rezazadeh (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), S. Smolentsev (ORNL)
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