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
Mar 2026
Jan 2026
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
April 2026
Nuclear Technology
February 2026
Fusion Science and Technology
Latest News
Going Nuclear: Notes from the officially unofficial book tour
I work in the analytical labs at one of Europe’s oldest and largest nuclear sites: Sellafield, in northwestern England. I spend my days at the fume hood front, pipette in one hand and radiation probe in the other (and dosimeter pinned to my chest, of course). Outside the lab, I have a second job: I moonlight as a writer and public speaker. My new popular science book—Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World—came out last summer, and it feels like my life has been running at full power ever since.
Masumi Okumura, Kazuhisa Yuki, Hidetoshi Hashizume, Akio Sagara
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 47 | Number 4 | May 2005 | Pages 1089-1093
Technical Paper | Fusion Energy - First Wall, Blanket, and Shield | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A832
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In order to apply Flibe as a liquid blanket material, a heat transfer enhancement system is required because the Flibe is a high Prandtl number fluid. The purpose of this study is to visualize the detailed flow fields in the packed-bed tube, which is expected to be utilized for the heat transfer enhancement. The visualization inside the packed-bed tube from various angles is performed by using a PIV system with a refractive index matching technique. Pressure loss characteristics in the packed-bed tube whose sphere diameter is half the length of tube inside diameter are evaluated and it is found that a drag model could be suitable to estimate the pressure loss of the packed-bed tube.