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ANS and the U.K.’s NI announce reciprocal membership agreement
With President Trump on a state visit to the U.K., in part to sign a landmark new agreement on U.S.-U.K. nuclear collaboration, a flurry of transatlantic partnerships and deals bridging the countries’ nuclear sectors have been announced.
The American Nuclear Society is taking an active role in this bridge-building by forming a reciprocal membership agreement with the U.K.’s Nuclear Institute.
G. D. Bouchey, S. J. Gage
Nuclear Technology | Volume 10 | Number 2 | February 1971 | Pages 211-214
Technical Paper and Note | Instrument | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A30928
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A fission gas sampling device for selectively locating leaking TRIGA reactor fuel elements was developed. The device, and the associated scintillation spectrometer, measures the radioactivity of the particulate daughter products of the fission gases escaping from a single failed fuel element. Details of the design of the device and the operating procedures are described. Several different approaches for locating faulty elements were evaluated and the most suitable one was used to locate a fuel element cladding break in the TRIGA reactor of the University of Texas at Austin.
