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.
Division Spotlight
Nuclear Criticality Safety
NCSD provides communication among nuclear criticality safety professionals through the development of standards, the evolution of training methods and materials, the presentation of technical data and procedures, and the creation of specialty publications. In these ways, the division furthers the exchange of technical information on nuclear criticality safety with the ultimate goal of promoting the safe handling of fissionable materials outside reactors.
Meeting Spotlight
ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
Standards Program
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!
Latest Magazine Issues
Feb 2025
Jul 2024
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
March 2025
Nuclear Technology
Fusion Science and Technology
February 2025
Latest News
Colin Judge: Testing structural materials in Idaho’s newest hot cell facility
Idaho National Laboratory’s newest facility—the Sample Preparation Laboratory (SPL)—sits across the road from the Hot Fuel Examination Facility (HFEF), which started operating in 1975. SPL will host the first new hot cells at INL’s Materials and Fuels Complex (MFC) in 50 years, giving INL researchers and partners new flexibility to test the structural properties of irradiated materials fresh from the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) or from a partner’s facility.
Materials meant to withstand extreme conditions in fission or fusion power plants must be tested under similar conditions and pushed past their breaking points so performance and limitations can be understood and improved. Once irradiated, materials samples can be cut down to size in SPL and packaged for testing in other facilities at INL or other national laboratories, commercial labs, or universities. But they can also be subjected to extreme thermal or corrosive conditions and mechanical testing right in SPL, explains Colin Judge, who, as INL’s division director for nuclear materials performance, oversees SPL and other facilities at the MFC.
SPL won’t go “hot” until January 2026, but Judge spoke with NN staff writer Susan Gallier about its capabilities as his team was moving instruments into the new facility.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE)
Technical Session
Wednesday, June 15, 2022|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Huntington B/C
Session Chair:
Brian Grierson (General Atomics)
Alternate Chair:
Leigh Winfrey
Session Organizer:
Rajesh Maingi
To access paper attachments, you must be logged in and registered for the meeting.
Register NowLog In
Progress in a US-Based Liquid Metal Plasma-Facing Component Design Activity for a Fusion Nuclear Science Facility
Rajesh Maingi (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Daniel E. Andruczyk (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Davide Curreli (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), M.S. Islam (ORNL), Charles E. Kessel (ORNL), Andrei Khodak (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Egemen Kolemen (PPPL), Jeremy Lore (ORNL), Daniel O'Dea (UIUC), Francisco Paenz (PU), Bruce A. Pint (ORNL), Rabel Rizkallah (UIUC), Marie Romedenne (UT-Battelle ORNL), Sergey Smolentsev (ORNL), Zhen Sun (PPPL), Brian Wynne (PU), Dennis L. Youchison (ORNL)
Paper
Overview of Liquid Metal PFC R&D at UIUC
Daniel E. Andruczyk (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Rabel Rizkallah (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Daniel O'Dea (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Andrew Shone (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Sam Smith (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Brandon E. Kamiyama (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Rajesh Maingi (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Chuck E. Kessel (ORNL), Sergey Smolentsev (Univ. California, Los Angeles), Thomas Morgan (Dutch Institute For Fundamental Energy Research), Fabio Romano (Dutch Institute For Fundamental Energy Research)
Design and MHD Thermofluids Analysis for an Open-Surface Fast-Flow Liquid Lithium Divertor
Sergey Smolentsev (Univ. California, Los Angeles), Charles E. Kessel (ORNL), Jeremy Lore (ORNL), Rajesh Maingi (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
Experiments and Simulations of Free Surface Liquid Metal Flow under Magnetohydrodynamic Conditions at LMX-U
Egemen Kolemen (Princeton Univ.), Andrei Khodak (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Francisco J. Saenz Castro (Princeton Univ.), Jabir A. Salam (Kyushu Univ.), Sergey Smolentsev (Univ. California, Los Angeles), Zhen Sun (PPPL), Brian Wynne (Princeton Univ.)
Plasma Boundary Response Calculations for a Fast Flow Liquid Lithium Divertor
Jeremy Lore (ORNL), M.S. Islam (ORNL), Charles E. Kessel (ORNL), Davide Curreli (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Rajesh Maingi (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), M. Rezazadeh (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), S. Smolentsev (ORNL)
To join the conversation, you must be logged in and registered for the meeting.
