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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 Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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Don’t get boxed in: Entergy CNO Kimberly Cook-Nelson shares her journey
Kimberly Cook-Nelson
For Kimberly Cook-Nelson, the path to the nuclear industry started with a couple of refrigerator boxes and cellophane paper. Her sixth-grade science project was inspired by her father, who worked at Seabrook power station in New Hampshire as a nuclear operator.
“I had two big refrigerator boxes I taped together. I cut the ‘primary operating system’ and the ‘secondary system’ out of them. Then I used different colored cellophane paper to show the pressurized water system versus the steam versus the cold cooling water,” Cook-Nelson said. “My dad got me those little replica pellets that I could pass out to people as they were going by at my science fair.”
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) 2020 Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fusion Energy
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Yuhu Zhai (PPPL)
Staff Producer:
Janice Lindegard (American Nuclear Society)
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Presentation Video (Visible to Attendees) — Recent Progress on No Insulation HTS Coil Technology
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Concept design and analysis of the magnet system of the sustained high power density tokamak facility
J Menard (Princeton plasma Physics Laboratory), A Brooks, Y. Zhai, P. Titus, T. Brown, Chirag Rana (PPPL)
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FNSF Structural Sizing Studies
Peter Titus (PPPL)
Recent progress in no-insulation high temperature superconducting magnet technology
David Larbalestier, Seungyong Hahn (Seoul National University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Development of high-current density HTS magnet for the helical fusion reactor and the next-generation helical device
Kazuya Takahata, Hidetoshi Hashizume, Shinji Hamaguchi, Hitoshi Tamura, Satoshi Ito, Yoshiro Narushima, Naoki Hirano, Yuta Onodera, Junichi Miyazawa, Shinnosuke Matsunaga, Toshiyuki Mito, Nagato Yanagi (NIFS)
Fusion magnet qualification of the NSTX-U inner TF bundle using high fidelity models
Yuhu Zhai (PPPL), Richard Hawryluk, Charles Neumeyer, Thomas Willard
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