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Isotopes & Radiation
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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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
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ANS designates Armour Research Foundation Reactor as Nuclear Historic Landmark
The American Nuclear Society presented the Illinois Institute of Technology with a plaque last week to officially designate the Armour Research Foundation Reactor a Nuclear Historic Landmark, following the Society’s decision to confer the status onto the reactor in September 2024.
Richard A. Condon, Neil C. Sher
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 14 | Number 4 | December 1962 | Pages 327-338
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A26239
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A study was conducted to establish the suitability of the gamma attenuation method for measuring void fractions in a parallel rod array. A lucite mock-up was used to evaluate the accuracy of the method; the error was found to vary from 7 to 13% depending upon the measuring method. Data were taken on an air-water system flowing vertically upward at atmospheric pressure, and were found to agree reasonably well with similar data for rectangular channels and round tubes. The results of this study are being used to guide the execution of the 600 psia boiling water, void experiments which are part of the heat transfer development for the Pathfinder Boiling Water-Integral Superheating Reactor.