ANS is committed to advancing, fostering, and promoting the development and application of nuclear sciences and technologies to benefit society.
Explore the many uses for nuclear science and its impact on energy, the environment, healthcare, food, and more.
Division Spotlight
Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy
The mission of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division (NNPD) is to promote the peaceful use of nuclear technology while simultaneously preventing the diversion and misuse of nuclear material and technology through appropriate safeguards and security, and promotion of nuclear nonproliferation policies. To achieve this mission, the objectives of the NNPD are to: Promote policy that discourages the proliferation of nuclear technology and material to inappropriate entities. Provide information to ANS members, the technical community at large, opinion leaders, and decision makers to improve their understanding of nuclear nonproliferation issues. Become a recognized technical resource on nuclear nonproliferation, safeguards, and security issues. Serve as the integration and coordination body for nuclear nonproliferation activities for the ANS. Work cooperatively with other ANS divisions to achieve these objective nonproliferation policies.
Meeting Spotlight
2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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!
Latest Magazine Issues
Mar 2024
Jan 2024
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
April 2024
Nuclear Technology
Fusion Science and Technology
February 2024
Latest News
Can hydrogen be the transportation fuel in an otherwise nuclear economy?
Let’s face it: The global economy should be powered primarily by nuclear power. And it probably will by the end of this century, with a still-significant assist from renewables and hydro. Once nuclear systems are dominant, the costs come down to where gas is now; and when carbon emissions are reduced to a small portion of their present state, it will become obvious that most other sources are only good in niche settings. I mean, why use small modular reactors to load-follow when they can just produce that power instead of buffering it?
Technical Session
Thursday, September 29, 2022|1:15–3:20PM PDT|Seaport
Session Chair:
Ethan A. Asano (Georgia Tech)
Alternate Chair:
Ahmad Ibrahim (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Thomas M Miller (ORNL)
To access paper attachments, you must be logged in and registered for the meeting.
Register NowLog In
Decay Dose Shielding Analysis with Hybrid Unstructured Mesh/Constructive Solid Geometry Monte Carlo Calculation and ADVANTG Acceleration
1:15–1:40PM PDT
Ahmad Ibrahim (ORNL), Tucker McClanahan (ORNL), Igor Remec (ORNL)
Paper
Efficiency Comparison of Radiation Transport Variance Reduction Methods for Wide-Area Environmental Contamination Assay Applications
1:40–2:05PM PDT
E. Asano (Georgia Tech), S. Dewji (Georgia Tech)
An Overview of the Capabilities and Recent Developments of the FLUKA Particle Transport Code
2:05–2:30PM PDT
F. Salvat-Pujol (European Org. for Nuclear Research), V. Vlachoudis (European Org. for Nuclear Research)
Monte Carlo Delta Tracking with Next-Event Estimators
2:30–2:55PM PDT
Timothy P. Burke (LANL)
Improved Heavy Ion Inelastic Reaction Simulation of PHITS by JQMD2.1
2:55–3:20PM PDT
Tatsuhiko Ogawa (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Shintaro Hashimoto (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Tatsuhiko Sato (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Koji Niita (Research Org. for Information Science and Technology)
To join the conversation, you must be logged in and registered for the meeting.