ANS is committed to advancing, fostering, and promoting the development and application of nuclear sciences and technologies to benefit society.
Explore the many uses for nuclear science and its impact on energy, the environment, healthcare, food, and more.
Division Spotlight
Human Factors, Instrumentation & Controls
Improving task performance, system reliability, system and personnel safety, efficiency, and effectiveness are the division's main objectives. Its major areas of interest include task design, procedures, training, instrument and control layout and placement, stress control, anthropometrics, psychological input, and motivation.
Meeting Spotlight
2021 Student Conference
April 8–10, 2021
Virtual Meeting
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!
Latest Magazine Issues
Mar 2021
Jul 2020
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
March 2021
Nuclear Technology
February 2021
Fusion Science and Technology
January 2021
Latest News
Fukiushima Daiichi: 10 years on
The Fukushima Daiichi site before the accident. All images are provided courtesy of TEPCO unless noted otherwise.
It was a rather normal day back on March 11, 2011, at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant before 2:45 p.m. That was the time when the Great Tohoku Earthquake struck, followed by a massive tsunami that caused three reactor meltdowns and forever changed the nuclear power industry in Japan and worldwide. Now, 10 years later, much has been learned and done to improve nuclear safety, and despite many challenges, significant progress is being made to decontaminate and defuel the extensively damaged Fukushima Daiichi reactor site. This is a summary of what happened, progress to date, current situation, and the outlook for the future there.
T. Hayashi, K. Isobe, K. Kobayashi, Y. Iwai, Y. Kawamura, H. Nakamura, W. M. Shu, T. Arita, S. Hoshi, T. Suzuki, M. Yamada, T. Yamanishi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 52 | Number 3 | October 2007 | Pages 651-658
Technical Paper | The Technology of Fusion Energy - Tritium, Safety, and Environment | dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1563
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The design studies of Atmosphere Detirtiation System (ADS) have been carried out in Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) as a contribution of Japan to ITER. The performance of ADS has also been investigated under accidental conditions such as fire and co-existing of a poison gas for catalyst like SF6. There is no degradation of Detritiation Factor (DF) under co-existing of CO or CO2 up to 20% as a simulated fire condition. However, only 0.1% of SF6 degrades the DF from more than 1000 to 50, following reduction of water by SF4 etc. (decomposition products of SF6) at 773K of catalyst bed.For the tritium processing technologies, our efforts have been focused on the R & D of the tritium recovery system of breeding blanket. In case of ITER Test Blanket Module, a cryogenic molecular sieve bed system was designed and demonstrated. Furthermore, electro-chemical pumping system using a proton conductor is also investigated to design more effective system. The durability of electrolysis cell for Water Detritiation System (WDS) has been investigated and it is expected that the cell can endure more than 3 years' operation under the ITER WDS design condition.A series of fundamental studies on tritium safety technologies has been carried out as another major activity of JAEA for ITER and future fusion demo reactors. Tritium behavior in various confinement materials, tritium monitoring & accountancy, and detritiation were studied under collaboration programs with universities, using Caisson Assembly for Tritium Safety study.
