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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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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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Commercial nuclear innovation "new space" age
In early 2006, a start-up company launched a small rocket from a tiny island in the Pacific. It exploded, showering the island with debris. A year later, a second launch attempt sent a rocket to space but failed to make orbit, burning up in the atmosphere. Another year brought a third attempt—and a third failure. The following month, in September 2008, the company used the last of its funds to launch a fourth rocket. It reached orbit, making history as the first privately funded liquid-fueled rocket to do so.
Workshop
Thursday, April 8, 2021|11:45AM–1:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Benjamin W. Beeler
Alternate Chair:
Ishita Trivedi
Session Organizer:
Edward Chen (NC State Univ.)
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Session Producers:
Bryant Kanies (NCSU)
Nuclear materials research encompasses fuel, cladding, gap bond, coolant, reactor pressure vessels, divertor, blankets and all other material systems of interest in fission and fusion reactor systems. A number of primary technological challenges facing the nuclear industry are all materials-based, such as extending to longer lifetimes, qualifying new fuel types for advanced reactors, and developing next generation reactor designs. This workshop will introduce participants to the field of computational nuclear materials science, with an overview of atomistic, mesoscale and fuel performance simulation methodologies. Participants will get hands-on training in molecular dynamics simulations on sodium cooled fast reactor metallic nuclear fuel systems utilizing the LAMMPS software package. LAMMPS is a state-of-the-art open source massively parallel molecular dynamics simulation code, that can be executed on a laptop. No prior computational experience is required, only an interest in nuclear materials research and a laptop is needed. Prior to participating in this workshop, please download the files named "InputFiles.zip" here. The extracted files will be used during the workshop in the interactive portion of the session. View the presentation here.
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