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ANS announces 2025 Presidential Citations
One of the privileges of being president of the American Nuclear Society is awarding Presidential Citations to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding effort in some manner for the benefit of ANS or the nuclear community at large. Citations are conferred twice each year, at the Annual and Winter Meetings.
ANS President Lisa Marshall has named this season’s recipients, who will receive recognition at the upcoming Annual Conference in Chicago during the Special Session on Tuesday, June 17.
Akihiro Ishimi, Kozo Katsuyama, Hirofumi Nakamura, Takeo Asaga, Hirotaka Furuya
Nuclear Technology | Volume 189 | Number 3 | March 2015 | Pages 312-317
Technical Paper | Materials for Nuclear Systems | doi.org/10.13182/NT14-34
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A high-resolution X-ray computed tomography (CT) technique was developed that made it possible to obtain fine X-ray CT images of an irradiated fuel assembly. In addition, the density distributions in an irradiated mixed oxide fuel pellet could be continually measured using the relationship between the densities and the CT values. These results were compared to the results obtained by the metallographic method. It was found that the relative change of radial density distributions in the irradiated fuel pellet can be measured more accurately by the X-ray CT technique than by metallographic examination.