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Aerospace Nuclear Science & Technology
Organized to promote the advancement of knowledge in the use of nuclear science and technologies in the aerospace application. Specialized nuclear-based technologies and applications are needed to advance the state-of-the-art in aerospace design, engineering and operations to explore planetary bodies in our solar system and beyond, plus enhance the safety of air travel, especially high speed air travel. Areas of interest will include but are not limited to the creation of nuclear-based power and propulsion systems, multifunctional materials to protect humans and electronic components from atmospheric, space, and nuclear power system radiation, human factor strategies for the safety and reliable operation of nuclear power and propulsion plants by non-specialized personnel and more.
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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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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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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.
Reiner Papp, Herbert Loser
Nuclear Technology | Volume 73 | Number 2 | May 1986 | Pages 228-235
Technical Paper | Performance of Borosilicate Glass High-Level Waste Forms in Disposal System / Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT86-A33787
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Within the framework of the fuel cycle evaluation that has been conducted between 1981 and 1985 by Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center in the Federal Republic of Germany, radiological safety has been considered an essential assessment criterion. The collective doses from normal operation turned out to exceed markedly the accidental doses associated with all stations at the back end of the fuel cycles. Both occupational and nonoccupational doses in the fuel cycle based on fuel reprocessing are higher than those from the once-through cycle, but radiological exposure of the population consists mainly of small individual doses that are only a small fraction of the doses due to natural background radiation.
