ANS is committed to advancing, fostering, and promoting the development and application of nuclear sciences and technologies to benefit society.
Explore the many uses for nuclear science and its impact on energy, the environment, healthcare, food, and more.
Explore membership for yourself or for your organization.
Conference Spotlight
2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
Latest Magazine Issues
Aug 2026
Jan 2026
2026
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
September 2026
Nuclear Technology
Fusion Science and Technology
August 2026
Latest News
ORNL, Rutherford Energy Ventures launch fusion partnership
Fusion Upscaled Leveraged Consortia for Rapid Acceleration (FULCRA) is the new public-private partnership between Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Rutherford Energy Ventures, a fusion consultancy company headquartered in Cambridge, Mass. FULCRA intends to create shared fusion test bed infrastructure at ORNL to serve as a design and funding model for similar test facilities at other national laboratories.
Wenyu Cheng, Linlin Zeng, He Zhou, Jie Liang, Ke Deng, Qin Zhang, Wei Liu
Nuclear Technology | Volume 211 | Number 3 | March 2025 | Pages 500-512
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2024.2338508
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Tritium causes internal dose hazards to humans. Currently, tritium in the environment mainly comes from nuclear power plants, and tritiated water (HTO) is the main form of liquid emission. Therefore, online monitoring activity of tritium in the aqueous medium is vital for protecting human health, and it can warn of the operation status of nuclear power plants. In this paper, we present an improved structure of plastic scintillating fiber (PSF) and a PSF array design, and the detection parameters of PSF arrays with different radii and lengths under different radius detection chambers are simulated using Geant4. Based on the simulation results, the detector is designed, and the minimum detectable activity concentration (MDAC) of the detector is calculated. With calculated MDACs down to 3.09 Bq/L, the proposed design can meet the Chinese requirements for HTO release of inland nuclear power plants of <100 Bq∙L−1. Therefore, the detector designed with a PSF array can be applied to online monitoring of tritium in the aqueous medium.