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Thermal Hydraulics
The division provides a forum for focused technical dialogue on thermal hydraulic technology in the nuclear industry. Specifically, this will include heat transfer and fluid mechanics involved in the utilization of nuclear energy. It is intended to attract the highest quality of theoretical and experimental work to ANS, including research on basic phenomena and application to nuclear system design.
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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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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.
R. E. Moore, C. J. Barton
Nuclear Technology | Volume 24 | Number 2 | November 1974 | Pages 238-245
Technical Paper | Nuclear Explosive | doi.org/10.13182/NT74-A31479
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Whole body annual radiation doses to man due to tritium were estimated for hypothetical exposures to stack gases discharged from the Cherokee Steam Electric Station in the Denver area burning 94 million ft3/day of nuclearly stimu-lated natural gas containing 10 pCi/cm3 of tritium. The highest dose that might be received by any person outside the plant area was estimated to be 0.006 mrem/yr, using annual average weather data. This predicted dose includes 0.005 mrem/yr from the initial exposure to plumes from the stacks, and 0.001 mrem/yr estimated for exposures to residual tritium repeatedly swept over the area by wind reversals which occur almost daily in the Denver area. The total dose to the nearby population of 1.55 million people was estimated to be 3.0 man-rem/yr, of which 1.6 man-rem/yr are attributable to the initial plume exposure, and the balance is from exposures due to wind reversals.