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Organized to promote the advancement of knowledge in the use of nuclear science and technologies in the aerospace application. Specialized nuclear-based technologies and applications are needed to advance the state-of-the-art in aerospace design, engineering and operations to explore planetary bodies in our solar system and beyond, plus enhance the safety of air travel, especially high speed air travel. Areas of interest will include but are not limited to the creation of nuclear-based power and propulsion systems, multifunctional materials to protect humans and electronic components from atmospheric, space, and nuclear power system radiation, human factor strategies for the safety and reliable operation of nuclear power and propulsion plants by non-specialized personnel and more.
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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.
Hiroyuki Nakaharai, Satoshi Takami, Takehiko Yokomine, Shinji Ebara, Akihiko Shimizu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 52 | Number 4 | November 2007 | Pages 855-859
Technical Paper | First Wall, Blanket, and Shield | doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1599
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
An effective heat transfer enhancement scheme is required to compensate for the decrease in heat transfer due to MHD effects in FLiBe based blanket design of fusion reactor. In present study, a twisted tape is selected as a potential candidate for a turbulence promoter, and a thermohydraulic behavior of turbulent flow of an electrically conducting fluid in a non-conducting pipe with twisted tape insertion under a transverse magnetic field is investigated. As a result, significant decrease of heat transfer performance is not observed compared with the same flow without the tape insertion because the heat transfer is dominated by the strong helical flow which is not suppressed by the magnetic field.
