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The Young Members Group works to encourage and enable all young professional members to be actively involved in the efforts and endeavors of the Society at all levels (Professional Divisions, ANS Governance, Local Sections, etc.) as they transition from the role of a student to the role of a professional. It sponsors non-technical workshops and meetings that provide professional development and networking opportunities for young professionals, collaborates with other Divisions and Groups in developing technical and non-technical content for topical and national meetings, encourages its members to participate in the activities of the Groups and Divisions that are closely related to their professional interests as well as in their local sections, introduces young members to the rules and governance structure of the Society, and nominates young professionals for awards and leadership opportunities available to members.
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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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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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College students help develop waste measuring device at Hanford
A partnership between Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) and Washington State University has resulted in the development of a device to measure radioactive tank waste at the Hanford Site. WRPS is the contractor at Hanford for the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management.
Linfeng Yan, Dawei Wang, Hsingtzu Wu
Nuclear Technology | Volume 208 | Number 12 | December 2022 | Pages 1822-1831
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2022.2083750
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A passive residual heat removal system plays an important role in cooling the reactor core under accident conditions. The computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software package ANSYS Fluent is used to analyze the influence of malfunction of any 2 of 12 tubes of a passive residual heat removal heat exchanger (PRHR HX) on its performance. Then the computation was validated using the published experimental data. Five different scenarios and a normal condition are computed to analyze the influence of locations of the malfunctioning tubes on the heat transfer performance of the PRHR HX. The results show that the tube defect reduces the amount of heat transferred by the PRHR HX. However, it is correlated with the size of the surface area of the deficient tubes instead of their locations. In other words, analysis suggests that defect tubes with the same surface area should result in similar damage regardless of the location.