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Accelerator Applications
The division was organized to promote the advancement of knowledge of the use of particle accelerator technologies for nuclear and other applications. It focuses on production of neutrons and other particles, utilization of these particles for scientific or industrial purposes, such as the production or destruction of radionuclides significant to energy, medicine, defense or other endeavors, as well as imaging and diagnostics.
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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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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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NRC v. Texas: Supreme Court weighs challenge to NRC authority in spent fuel storage case
The State of Texas has not one but two ongoing federal court challenges to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that could, if successful, turn decades of NRC regulations, precedent, and case law on its head.
C. E. Dickerman, L. E. Robinson, E. S. Sowa, J. H. Monaweck, C. August
Nuclear Technology | Volume 3 | Number 8 | August 1967 | Pages 461-473
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT67-A27777
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Behavior of two types of irradiated metallic fast-reactor fuel pins under transient heating in an inert-gas atmosphere in the TREAT reactor was studied under conditions ranging up to complete meltdown. Irradiation-induced changes in failure thresholds, modes of failure, and post-failure fuel motion were significant but not enough to make gross changes in the course of an accident. The amount of swelling observed in the post-experimental fuel residue was large enough to have played a significant role in determining the course of a meltdown accident.