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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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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.
John R. Banister, D. M. Ellett
Nuclear Technology | Volume 27 | Number 4 | December 1975 | Pages 660-679
Technical Paper | Nuclear Explosive | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24340
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Measurements were made of the change of in situ pore pressures and the associated accelerations in the saturated clayey silts (ML) of Fawn Creek and Black Sulphur Valleys at 2.1, 4, 7, and 10 km from surface zero. The early pore pressure changes correlated well with accelerations while the later values correlated better with velocities. The pressure changes ranged from 17.1 to 0.36 psi far the peak pressures and from 1.7 to 0.10 psi for the average pressure increases 10 sec after the detonation. Pretest estimates indicated that liquefaction was considered probable but it was not observed and the pore pressure increases were one-quarter or less than those associated with this phenomenon.