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Isotopes & Radiation
Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
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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BREAKING NEWS: Trump issues executive orders to overhaul nuclear industry
The Trump administration issued four executive orders today aimed at boosting domestic nuclear deployment ahead of significant growth in projected energy demand in the coming decades.
During a live signing in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump called nuclear “a hot industry,” adding, “It’s a brilliant industry. [But] you’ve got to do it right. It’s become very safe and environmental.”
H. Jüntgen, K. H. Van Heek
Nuclear Technology | Volume 35 | Number 3 | October 1977 | Pages 581-590
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31867
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Bergbau-Forschung GmbH has developed a fluidized bed coal gasifier into which the reaction heat is transferred from a gas-cooled high-temperature nuclear reactor (HTR). Extensive material research has shown that new alloys based on Incoloy 800 will meet the specifications required for the heat exchanger. According to bench and pilot plant scale experiments, a technical scale gasifier will process ∼50.103 kg of low volatile bituminous coal/h at 40 bar (4 MPa). Such HTR parameters as helium outlet and inlet temperatures, such coal parameters as ash and water content or reactivity, and other parameters exert an impact on operating data of a combined plant consisting of an HTR and a gas plant.