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Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy
The mission of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division (NNPD) is to promote the peaceful use of nuclear technology while simultaneously preventing the diversion and misuse of nuclear material and technology through appropriate safeguards and security, and promotion of nuclear nonproliferation policies. To achieve this mission, the objectives of the NNPD are to: Promote policy that discourages the proliferation of nuclear technology and material to inappropriate entities. Provide information to ANS members, the technical community at large, opinion leaders, and decision makers to improve their understanding of nuclear nonproliferation issues. Become a recognized technical resource on nuclear nonproliferation, safeguards, and security issues. Serve as the integration and coordination body for nuclear nonproliferation activities for the ANS. Work cooperatively with other ANS divisions to achieve these objective nonproliferation policies.
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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
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ANS designates Armour Research Foundation Reactor as Nuclear Historic Landmark
The American Nuclear Society presented the Illinois Institute of Technology with a plaque last week to officially designate the Armour Research Foundation Reactor a Nuclear Historic Landmark, following the Society’s decision to confer the status onto the reactor in September 2024.
N. T. Kazakovsky, I. A. Abramov, A. I. Vedeneev, M. V. Glagolev, A. A. Selezenev
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 48 | Number 1 | July-August 2005 | Pages 692-695
Technical Paper | Tritium Science and Technology - Properties, Reactions, and Applications | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A1018
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A method and a laboratory facility were developed for the purpose of determining inflammation temperature of hydrogen-oxygen gaseous mixtures (HOGM). We have determined the inflammation temperature of HOGM containing the following impurities: Ar, Xe, H2O and tritium within the range of initial gas pressure from 3 to 13 kPa. The results agree well with the available reference and numerical simulation results. The inflammation temperatures of HOGM in the range of initial gas pressure from 2 to 13 kPa increases from 793 to 873 K. Average inflammation temperatures of hydrogen and deuterium mixtures differ no more than 1.6 %. Introduction of inert gases (argon and xenon) into gaseous mixture up to 45 volume percent does not change inflammation temperature significantly. Water introduction (in the range from 2.4 to 25 volume percent) does not cause gaseous mixture inflammation. The effect of tritium -radiation on temperature of GM inflammation within the range of tritium concentration concerned is insignificant and agrees with the results of numerical modeling obtained earlier.
