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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.
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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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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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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.
H. A. Kurstedt, Jr., G. H. Miley
Nuclear Technology | Volume 10 | Number 2 | February 1971 | Pages 168-178
Technical Paper and Note | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A30924
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The technique of short-interval series pulsing a thermal reactor has been studied experimentally using the University of Illinois TRIGA Reactor. Pulse repetition rates varying from 0.5 to 3.0 pulses/min were involved. These rates represent an order of magnitude decrease in time interval between pulses compared to previous TRIGA pulsing experience. It was found that the equilibrium pulse amplitudes are strongly affected by the pulse rod reactivity, the rod drop time, and the time interval between pulses; and in the experiments, each of these parameters was maintained at a fixed value during any given series. A unique method of analysis involving the reactor kinetics equations solved in temperature has been developed to study series pulsing. This analysis shows that a further improvement by a factor of 2 to 5 for present reactor and fuel designs can be expected with certain techniques that do not require major modifications to reactor geometry or fuel. These include changing the pulse rod reactivity values between pulses, changing the time interval between pulses, increasing the rod drop reactivity, and series pulsing from elevated powers.