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Division Spotlight
Nuclear Installations Safety
Devoted specifically to the safety of nuclear installations and the health and safety of the public, this division seeks a better understanding of the role of safety in the design, construction and operation of nuclear installation facilities. The division also promotes engineering and scientific technology advancement associated with the safety of such facilities.
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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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
Thursday, July 20, 2023|12:30–5:30PM EDT
Leaving from the Knoxville Convention Center
SOLD OUT
Bus will pick up at the Convention Center: Clinch Avenue Entrance, please arrive to this location at 12:15pm to pick up lunch before getting on the bus.
Price: $50 a person
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the world’s premier research institution, empowering leaders and teams to pursue breakthroughs in an environment marked by operational excellence and engagement with the communities where we live and work.
ORNL Tour Agenda:Leave Hilton at 1:00pm1:45–2:00pm Bus arrives ORNL2:00– 3:00pm High Flux Isotope Reactor and Radio Chemical Engineering and Development Center3:10 – 3:30pm Board bus en route to Visitors Center and Walk en route to Frontier/Summit3:30 – 4:00pm Tour Frontier 4:00 – 4:10pm Walk en route to Visitors Center to board bus to Graphite Reactor4:20 – 4:50pm Tour Graphite ReactorBack to Hilton at 5:30pmHigh Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR)Operating at 85 MW, HFIR is the highest flux reactor-based source of neutrons for research in the United States, and it provides one of the highest steady-state neutron fluxes of any research reactor in the world. The thermal and cold neutrons produced by HFIR are used to study physics, chemistry, materials science, engineering, and biology. Learn more
Radio Chemical Engineering and Development Center (REDC)At the REDC experts in radiochemical processing use specialized equipment and systems to produce unique radioisotopes for applications in research, national security, medicine, space exploration, and industry. Learn more
Frontier Tour
ORNL has decades of experience in delivering, operating, and conducting research on world-leading supercomputers. Frontier has leveraged ORNL’s extensive experience and expertise in GPU-accelerated computing to become the US Department of Energy’s next record-breaking supercomputer and the world’s first exascale system. Learn more
Graphite Reactor
During the 20 years the Graphite Reactor operated—from 1943 to 1963—it continued its pioneering role. It is the oldest reactor in the world. Watch and read more.
Note: Because of the construction close to the GR, the bus will have to drop guests off at the bottom of Hill Avenue, about a 2–3-minute walk up the hill. Please consider.
