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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
2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott 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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Nuclear fuel cycle reimagined: Powering the next frontiers from nuclear waste
In the fall of 2023, a small Zeno Power team accomplished a major feat: they demonstrated the first strontium-90 heat source in decades—and the first-ever by a commercial company.
Zeno Power worked with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to fabricate and validate this Z1 heat source design at the lab’s Radiochemical Processing Laboratory. The Z1 demonstration heralded renewed interest in developing radioisotope power system (RPS) technology. In early 2025, the heat source was disassembled, and the Sr-90 was returned to the U.S. Department of Energy for continued use.
Technical Session
Thursday, September 29, 2022|10:00AM–12:05PM PDT|Seaport
Session Chair:
Chikara Konno (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Alternate Chair:
Jeff Favorite (LANL)
Session Organizer:
Thomas M. Miller (ORNL)
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Two-Group Flux Analysis of Neutrons Which Penetrate Metallic Walls -- Deterministic Predictions vs. MC Simulations
10:00–10:25AM PDT
Eric V. Steinfelds (Western Kentucky Univ.), Keith Andrew (Western Kentucky Univ.)
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MATXS Multigroup File Problem due to NJOY Unresolved Resonance Processing
10:25–10:50AM PDT
Chikara Konno (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Kenichi Tada (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Saerom Kwon (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology)
Multigroup Boundary Projection Acceleration of Partially-Converged Nested Iterations Applied to Fixed-Source Sub-Critical Transport Problems
10:50–11:15AM PDT
D. Sciannandrone (CEA), E. Masiello (CEA), D. Mancusi (CEA), S. Bourganel (CEA)
Domain Decomposition of the First Collision Source Method in the IDT Solver
11:15–11:40AM PDT
Matteo Falabino (CEA), Daniele Sciannandrone (CEA), Emiliano Masiello (CEA), Jean-François Vidal (CEA)
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