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.
Explore membership for yourself or for your organization.
Conference Spotlight
2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
Latest Magazine Issues
Jan 2026
Jul 2025
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
January 2026
Nuclear Technology
December 2025
Fusion Science and Technology
November 2025
Latest News
2025: The year in nuclear
As Nuclear News has done since 2022, we have compiled a review of the nuclear news that filled headlines and sparked conversations in the year just completed. Departing from the chronological format of years past, we open with the most impactful news of 2025: a survey of actions and orders of the Trump administration that are reshaping nuclear research, development, deployment, and commercialization. We then highlight some of the top news in nuclear restarts, new reactor testing programs, the fuel supply chain and broader fuel cycle, and more.
B. J. Merrill, S. C. Jardin
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1278-1283
Result of Large Experiment and Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29517
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The release of cooling water from the divertor, first wall, or blanket cooling system into the vacuum chamber during plasma operation is a coolant ingress accident. Once inside the chamber, this coolant will enter the plasma, causing a density limit disruption. We have analyzed this accident for ITER with the DSTAR code. Two neutral transport treatments were used in studying this accident: a 1 1/2D diffusion approximation, and a 2D fluids solution; both gave comparable results. Our findings are that this event could increase the rate of plasma current decay during a disruption by two to three times that being proposed as an ITER reactor design guideline.