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Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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2025 ANS Annual Conference
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Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Comments on U.S. nuclear export controls on China
As trade negotiations are in the works between the United States and China, Washington, D.C., has the advantage in semiconductors but nuclear power is a different story, according to a June 9 article in the Hong Kong–based South China Morning Post.
W. PRIMAK
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 2 | Number 3 | May 1957 | Pages 320-333
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE57-A25398
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The portion of the neutron flux spectrum responsible for producing radiation damage in the light insulators is identified. A simplified method for describing the radiation damage dosage is devised to permit quantitative comparisons between the radiation damage developed in different reactor facilities. The damage rates in facilities of the following reactors are compared: X-10, CP-3', CP-5, Hanford, BNL-1, and LITR; the relation of the damage rates to various quoted fluxes is indicated. It is shown that the damaging flux has no general relation to the total flux, the thermal flux, the resonance flux, or the epithermal flux; it must be monitored for each experiment.
