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Thermal Hydraulics
The division provides a forum for focused technical dialogue on thermal hydraulic technology in the nuclear industry. Specifically, this will include heat transfer and fluid mechanics involved in the utilization of nuclear energy. It is intended to attract the highest quality of theoretical and experimental work to ANS, including research on basic phenomena and application to nuclear system design.
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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
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!
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Sam Altman steps down as Oklo board chair
Advanced nuclear company Oklo Inc. has new leadership for its board of directors as billionaire Sam Altman is stepping down from the position he has held since 2015. The move is meant to open new partnership opportunities with OpenAI, where Altman is CEO, and other artificial intelligence companies.
Wenjun Yang, Guoqiang Li, Xueyu Gong, Xiang Gao, Xiaoe Li, Hang Li, Songlin Liu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 78 | Number 2 | February 2022 | Pages 164-173
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1969064
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR) is a new superconducting tokamak device being designed in China, aiming to bridge the gaps between ITER and future fusion power plants. In addition to the temperature dependence, the cross section also depends on the spin states of the reactant nuclei. In this paper, we calculate the neutron source and neutron wall loading (NWL) distributions and investigate the effect of spin polarization on them. For the two unpolarized scenarios at the CFETR, the neutron source distributions have obvious differences, but the poloidal distributions of the NWL have a similar tendency and are just a little different except near the outboard midplane. For the hybrid mode scenario, the maximum of the NWL is near the outboard midplane. However, for the full parallel or antiparallel polarization, the NWL distributions have a big difference in the poloidal direction, and the maximum of the NWL occurs in the upper region of the first wall. The calculation results show that it is possible to optimize blanket design by using polarized fuels at the CFETR, and then increase the working life of the first wall.