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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.
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2027 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
October 31–November 4, 2027
Washington, DC|The Westin Washington, DC 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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Drones fly in to inspect waste tanks at Savannah River Site
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management will soon, for the first time, begin using drones to internally inspect radioactive liquid waste tanks at the department’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Inspections were previously done using magnetic wall-crawling robots.
Technical Session|Methods
Wednesday, April 24, 2024|3:30–5:15PM PDT|Continental Ballroom 2
Session Chair:
William Dawn (Studsvik Scandpower)
Alternate Chair:
Charlie Latimer (Rolls Royce)
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Stability Analyses of the Monte Carlo Neutron Transport with Thermal-Hydraulics Feedback
3:30–3:50PM PDT
Kaiwen Li (Tsinghua Univ.), Nan An (Tsinghua Univ.), Hao Luo (Tsinghua Univ.), Jingang Liang (Tsinghua Univ.), Ding She (Tsinghua Univ.), Zhihong Liu (Tsinghua Univ.), Kan Wang (Tsinghua Univ.)
Paper
Coarse Mesh Finite Difference Acceleration for Pebble Tracking Transport in Griffin
3:50–4:10PM PDT
Yaqi Wang (INL), Joshua Hanophy (INL), Namjae Choi (INL)
Improved Decoupled Diffusion Synthetic Acceleration Scheme for Neutral Particle Transport
4:10–4:30PM PDT
Joseph M. Coale (LANL), James S. Warsa (LANL)
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Assessing Nonlinear Diffusion Acceleration for Boltzmann Fokker Planck Equation in Slab Geometry
4:30–4:50PM PDT
Japan K. Patel (Univ. Michigan), Barry D. Ganapol (Univ. Arizona), Martha M. Matuszak (Univ. Michigan)
An Adaptive Model for Decay Heat Estimation Using Scram Curves
4:50–5:10PM PDT
Evgeny Nikitin (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf), Emil Fridman (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf), Alexander Ponomarev (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
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