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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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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.
Scott M. Richards (Univ of Tennessee), Brandon R. Grogan (ORNL)
Proceedings | 16th International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference (IHLRWM 2017) | Charlotte, NC, April 9-13, 2017 | Pages 899-905
The Inverse Depletion Theory (INDEPTH) code is one of the tools being used to analyze the traditional nondestructive assay (NDA) measurements and verify the initial enrichment, burnup, and cooling time values of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) declared by facilities. The INDEPTH code attempts to reconstruct the initial enrichment and operating history by using the Oak Ridge Isotope Generation (ORIGEN) code to simulate irradiation and cooling of the fuel. This work examined the sensitivity of INDEPTH results to variations in irradiation conditions. Three types of measured data were simulated to identify possible sources of systematic error. An absolute gamma measurement with a gross neutron count produced more accurate answers than either the relative gamma measurement or the absolute gamma measurement by itself in most cases. However, long shutdown times between irradiation cycles were found to greatly affect the accuracy, with the absolute gamma plus gross neutron counts case losing the most accuracy. In these cases, the added neutron data either did not significantly improve the results or made them worse.