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 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
Latest Magazine Issues
Jun 2026
Jan 2026
2026
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
August 2026
Nuclear Technology
July 2026
Fusion Science and Technology
Latest News
NRC proposes security regulation changes
In 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14300, “‘Ordering the Reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,” which directs the NRC to conduct a sweeping, multifaceted overhaul of its structure, culture, and regulations with the aim of facilitating increased deployment of new nuclear technologies and capacity.
Gonzalo Farias, Ernesto Fabregas, Sebastián Dormido-Canto, Jesús Vega, Sebastián Vergara
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 76 | Number 8 | November 2020 | Pages 925-932
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2020.1820804
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Anomaly detection addresses the problem of finding unexpected values in data sets. Often, these anomalies, also known as outliers, discordant values, or exceptions, describe patterns in the behavior of the data. Anomaly detection is important because it frequently involves significant and critical information in many application domains. In the case of nuclear fusion, there is a wide variety of anomalies that could be related to plasma behaviors, such as disruptions or low-high (L-H) transitions. In this context, there are known and unknown anomalies, where unknown anomalies represent the largest proportion of the total that can be found in nuclear fusion. This paper presents a study of the application of deep learning and architecture called Autoencoder to detect anomalies predicting (encode-decode) in a discharge.