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Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy
The mission of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division (NNPD) is to promote the peaceful use of nuclear technology while simultaneously preventing the diversion and misuse of nuclear material and technology through appropriate safeguards and security, and promotion of nuclear nonproliferation policies. To achieve this mission, the objectives of the NNPD are to: Promote policy that discourages the proliferation of nuclear technology and material to inappropriate entities. Provide information to ANS members, the technical community at large, opinion leaders, and decision makers to improve their understanding of nuclear nonproliferation issues. Become a recognized technical resource on nuclear nonproliferation, safeguards, and security issues. Serve as the integration and coordination body for nuclear nonproliferation activities for the ANS. Work cooperatively with other ANS divisions to achieve these objective nonproliferation policies.
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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.
K. C. Thomas, E. C. Bishop, G. A. Whitlow
Nuclear Technology | Volume 7 | Number 2 | August 1969 | Pages 144-154
Radioisotopes | doi.org/10.13182/NT69-A28358
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Vandium alloys have been identified as one of the leading alternate cladding materials for liquid-metal-cooled fast breeder reactors for circumventing the possible limitations of austenitic stainless steels. Two of the more important aspects of this usage on which little information is available are sodium corrosion and compatibility with ceramic fuels. In this study, a series of experimental vanadium alloy compositions were found to increase in weight and in hardness after 500-h exposure to flowing sodium containing <10 ppm oxygen at ∼790°C; these changes are due to the absorption of oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen. In 1000-h tests at 800°C, some incompatibility was observed only between vanadium alloys containing iron and uranium-carbide fuel. However, these screening tests have identified three vanadium alloy compositions as worthy of further study.
