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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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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.
O. Kaneko, T. Yamamoto, M. Akiba, M. Hanada, K. Ikeda, T. Inoue, K. Nagaoka, Y. Oka, M. Osakabe, Y. Takeiri, K. Tsumori, N. Umeda, K. Watanabe
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 44 | Number 2 | September 2003 | Pages 503-507
Technical Paper | Fusion Energy - Plasma Engineering, Heating, and Current Drive | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A386
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Two pilot facilities of advanced negative-ion-based neutral beam injection heating system have been working successfully on the JT-60U tokamak and the LHD heliotron in Japan. These were the first applications of negative-ion technology to the production of high current neutral beam for plasma heating as well as current drive. High energy deuterium beam of 400 keV (5.8 MW) was injected in JT-60U for efficient current drive, and high power hydrogen beam of 9.0 MW (160 keV) was injected in LHD producing high performance plasmas. These results demonstrate the feasibility of negative ion beam system for future fusion reactors such as ITER.
