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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.
Meeting Spotlight
2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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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U.S. nuclear capacity factors: Ideal for data centers?
Baseload nuclear generation doesn’t get the respect it deserves, if you ask nuclear operators. But the hyperscale data centers that process our digital lives—like the one right next to the Susquehanna plant in northeastern Pennsylvania—are pushing electricity demand up. Clean, reliable capacity now looks a lot more valuable.
Ivan A. Kodeli, Steven van der Marck
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 198 | Number 2 | February 2024 | Pages 381-390
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2023.2199673
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Iron is an essential element in the construction materials for fission and fusion reactors. Due to its complexity, the evaluation of iron cross sections continues to represent a challenge for the international nuclear data community. A comprehensive validation of any new nuclear data evaluation (and the computational procedure) against experimental benchmarks is therefore needed. The shielding benchmark database SINBAD includes relatively numerous experiments with iron as a shielding material; altogether, 27 benchmarks and several more are known but have not yet been evaluated in the database. However, in order to use the benchmark information with confidence and to rely on the predictions based on integral benchmark calculations, it is crucial to verify the quality and accuracy of the measurements themselves, as well as the (completeness of) available experimental information. This is done in the scope of the benchmark evaluation process. A further check of the reliability of the experimental information can be achieved by intercomparing the results of similar types of benchmark experiments and checking the consistency among them.