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
2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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
Oct 2025
Jul 2025
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
November 2025
Nuclear Technology
October 2025
Fusion Science and Technology
Latest News
Russia withdraws from 25-year-old weapons-grade plutonium agreement
Russia’s lower house of Parliament, the State Duma, approved a measure to withdraw from a 25-year-old agreement with the United States to cut back on the leftover plutonium from Cold War–era nuclear weapons.
S.J. Booth, G. Newbert
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 2 | March 1992 | Pages 719-723
Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29832
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Maintenance work and modifications on the Joint European Torus (JET) machine give rise to wastes that are contaminated with beryllium, activation products and tritium. During the Deuterium (D-D) Phase the tritium levels on the wastes have been negligible. However, plans to conduct a Preliminary Tritium Experiment (PTE) in 1991 would result in tritiated wastes being generated. Estimates have been made of waste volume arisings and their activity contents for both the D-D and Tritium (D-T) Phases of JET. Appropriate discharge Authorisations are in place or have been applied for. Waste handling and quality assurance procedures as well as the facilities for handling the wastes will build on those already in place for the handling of beryllium contaminated and low level radwastes produced during the D-D Phase.