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The division was organized to promote the advancement of knowledge of the use of particle accelerator technologies for nuclear and other applications. It focuses on production of neutrons and other particles, utilization of these particles for scientific or industrial purposes, such as the production or destruction of radionuclides significant to energy, medicine, defense or other endeavors, as well as imaging and diagnostics.
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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.
Hirotaka Furuya, Masumichi Koizumi
Nuclear Technology | Volume 28 | Number 2 | February 1976 | Pages 226-234
Technical Paper | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT76-A31563
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The surface diffusion of plutonium on uranium dioxide was measured in the temperature range from 1400 to 1830°C using a tracer method. A (U,Pu)O2 point source was placed and heated on the polished surface of a UO2 diffusion pellet. In the low-temperature range from 1400 to 1670°C, the product of the surface diffusion coefficient and high diffusivity surface layer, Ds · δ, was expressed by the equation As the temperature of diffusion anneal increases, the transport of some tracer atoms from the point source to the pellet surface appeared. In the temperature range from 1640 to 1830°C, the product, Ds · δ, was expressed by the equation