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Operations & Power
Members focus on the dissemination of knowledge and information in the area of power reactors with particular application to the production of electric power and process heat. The division sponsors meetings on the coverage of applied nuclear science and engineering as related to power plants, non-power reactors, and other nuclear facilities. It encourages and assists with the dissemination of knowledge pertinent to the safe and efficient operation of nuclear facilities through professional staff development, information exchange, and supporting the generation of viable solutions to current issues.
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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott 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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NuScale Energy Exploration Center opens at SC State
NuScale Power Corporation’s latest Energy Exploration (E2) Center has opened at South Carolina State University, in Orangeburg. E2 Centers are designed to provide visitors with hands-on experiences in simulated scenarios of operations at nuclear power plants. NuScale has established 10 such centers around the world. The company officially presented the fully installed E2 Center to SC State on May 21, after a collaborative setup and training process was completed.
Lawrence Ruby, Tai-Ping Lung
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 69 | Number 1 | January 1979 | Pages 107-109
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A21293
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Ancillary 6Li + 6Li reactions will produce products, some of which are radioactive, in a fusion reactor operating on the 6Li(p,α)3He cycle. Available cross-section data for 6Li + 6Li reactions have been used to compute the reaction rates as a function of temperature in such a reactor. Below 80 keV, the rate of ancillary reactions is less than that for 1H + 6Li by at least 103, but this factor diminishes until at 270 keV it is only ∼10. An appreciable fraction of the ancillary reactions leads to the radioactive products 7Be + n.
