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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
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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. U. Ahmed, R. G. Cochran
Nuclear Technology | Volume 17 | Number 1 | January 1973 | Pages 66-70
Technical Paper | Radiation | doi.org/10.13182/NT73-A31255
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Total gamma-ray attenuation coefficients for five different elements were measured for energies 6.02-, 7.28-, 7.72-, 8.49-, 9.3-, and 9.88-MeV gamma rays. The nuclear resonance scattering method was used in the attenuation of photons for the two energies, 7.28 and 8.49 MeV. For the other energies the direct narrow beam method was used. The total attenuation coefficients were measured with an average uncertainty of 0.6% and appeared to be in better agreement with the tabulated values of Hubbel and Berger than those of Storm and Israel.
