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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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DOE opens pilot program to authorize test reactors outside national labs
Details of the plan to test new reactor concepts under the Department of Energy’s authority but outside national laboratory boundaries—first outlined in one of the four executive orders on nuclear energy released on May 23—were just released in a request for applications issued by the DOE.
S. Grünhagen, P. D. Brennan, S. Knipe, R. Stagg, J. Yorkshades, JET-EFDA Contributors
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 3 | October 2011 | Pages 931-936
Measurement, Monitoring, and Accountancy | Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12568
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The JET Active Gas Handling System (AGHS) analytical glovebox contains a custom built Gas Chromatography (GC) system and an Omegatron Mass Spectrometer. The equipment is primarily used to determine the purity of the hydrogen isotopes recovered and separated by the AGHS.Another application is to analyse the composition of the torus exhaust gas to identify and quantify all compounds including hydrocarbons generated during plasma operation. The installed GC system could only measure hydrocarbons up to propane, hence a new system was added: a Micro Gas Chromatograph, capable of analysing mixtures of hydrocarbons up to decane.Results of the analyses of hydrocarbons at the end of the carbon wall campaign with the new Micro GC are presented in this paper.
