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The Radiation Protection and Shielding Division is developing and promoting radiation protection and shielding aspects of nuclear science and technology — including interaction of nuclear radiation with materials and biological systems, instruments and techniques for the measurement of nuclear radiation fields, and radiation shield design and evaluation.
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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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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.
R. H. Whitley, G. R. Lutz, S. A. Frieje, D. H. Berwald, J. D. Gordon
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 1165-1170
Fusion Reactor Design—II | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24888
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A commercial electric plant concept has been developed with multiple advanced tokamak reactors operating at a single site with shared equipment. These multiplexed reactors use superconducting magnets, operate at high beta, and have inductively driven plasma current. The attractiveness of this approach is based on cost reductions which are achieved by the sharing of some components and on availability improvements resulting from the addition of standby equipment. Parametric studies have been performed to determine both the optimal number of reactors in a plant and the optimal reactor characteristics. A plant layout has been developed which uses remote maintenance technologies for operation and maintenance such that at least part of the plant is always operational.