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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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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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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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State legislation: Illinois bill aims to lift state’s remaining nuclear moratorium
A bill that would fully repeal the state’s entire moratorium on new nuclear projects survived a key deadline in the Illinois General Assembly last week.
To stay afloat in the spring legislative session, bills needed to be assigned to committee by March 21, and state Sen. Sue Rezin’s Senate Bill 1527 now sits with the Senate’s Energy and Public Utilities committee for review.
Advanced Reactor Safety (ARS)
Technical Session
Monday, June 17, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Palm A
Session Chair:
Matthew R. Denman
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Koroush Shirvan
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Quantification of In-Containment Mechanistic Source Term for Advanced Light Water Reactor
1:00–1:20PM PDT
Yahya A. Alzahrani (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
Paper
An Assessment of the Applicability and Usability of Light Water Reactor Source Term Software for Non-Light Water Reactor Designers
1:20–1:40PM PDT
Matthew R. Denman (Kairos Power), Peiwen T. Whysall (Kairos Power), Jordan E. Hagaman (Kairos Power)
The Development of Simplified Radionuclide Transport Code (SRT) Version 2.1
1:40–2:00PM PDT
Tyler Starkus (ANL), Dave Grabaskas (ANL), Dong Hoon Kam (ANL), Shayan Shahbazi (ANL)
Consequence Uncertainty Quantification in LMP Applications
2:00–2:20PM PDT
Matthew Humberstone (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Hanh Phan (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Steven Unwin (PNNL), Steve Short (PNNL), Garill Coles (PNNL)
Presented by Jeffery Wood (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
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Oxidation Model of the Accident Tolerant Fuel Implemented in NuScale Reactor Using MELCOR Code
2:20–2:40PM PDT
Mohammad Amer Allaf (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Grace Ejnik (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), WooHyun Jung (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Michael Corradini (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Koroush Shirvan (MIT), Juliana Pacheco Duarte (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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