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Thermal Hydraulics
The division provides a forum for focused technical dialogue on thermal hydraulic technology in the nuclear industry. Specifically, this will include heat transfer and fluid mechanics involved in the utilization of nuclear energy. It is intended to attract the highest quality of theoretical and experimental work to ANS, including research on basic phenomena and application to nuclear system design.
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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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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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Two updated standards on criticality safety published
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) recently approved two new American Nuclear Society standards covering different aspects of nuclear criticality safety (NCS).
A. A. Skovoroda, I. A. Taimanov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 190-192
doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11605
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The mean curvature approach is considered for arbitrary magnetic field vector and magnetic surface. It is shown that the magnetic field module variation along a field line defines the mean curvature of this vector. Magnetic surfaces with constant mean curvature can be optimal for plasma confinement in strait open-ended traps and linked multimirror configurations.
