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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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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott 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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Deep Isolation validates its disposal canister for TRISO spent fuel
Nuclear waste disposal technology company Deep Isolation announced it has successfully completed Project PUCK, a government-funded initiative to demonstrate the feasibility and potential commercial readiness of its Universal Canister System (UCS) to manage TRISO spent nuclear fuel.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Tuesday, November 15, 2022|10:00–11:45AM MST|Sonoran 7
Session Chair:
Zeyun Wu (VCU)
Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni (UC Berkeley)
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Verification of Diffusion Solver with Equivalent Transport Factors on PWR Assembly Models
10:00–10:20AM MST
Muhammad Rizki Oktavian (Purdue), Oscar Lastres (Purdue), Yunlin Xu (Purdue)
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Discrete Element Method Investigation of Reflector Dimples for a General Pebble Bed Reactor Design
10:20–10:40AM MST
David Reger (Penn State), Paolo Balestra (INL), Ryan Stewart (INL), Gerhard Strydom (INL), Elia Merzari (Penn State)
Application of Two-Node Discontinuity Factor for Improving Accuracy of Nodal Calculation
10:40–11:00AM MST
HwanYeal Yu (KEPCO Nuclear Fuel), Joo-Ill Yoon (KEPCO Nuclear Fuel)
Real Variance Estimation in the iDTMC-Based Depletion Analysis Using Correlated Sampling
11:00–11:20AM MST
Inyup Kim (KAIST), Inhyung Kim (Univ. California, Berkeley), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
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