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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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Molten salt test loop at INL means real-time data on sensors and materials
The Department of Energy announced March 31 that a new Molten Salt Flow Loop Test Bed at Idaho National Laboratory recently went through its inaugural test run. The closed-loop test system will allow for continuous monitoring and analysis of chloride-based molten salt reactor technology and instruments before the construction of the Southern Company/TerraPower Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment. MCRE—an experimental fast-spectrum molten salt research reactor—will be built at INL’s repurposed Zero Power Physics Reactor, which has been renamed LOTUS (Laboratory for Operation and Testing in the United States).
Technical Session|Modeling, Analysis, and Methods
Wednesday, October 12, 2022|10:15–11:55AM EDT|Branle
Session Chair:
Ian Porter (GE)
Alternate Chair:
Olivier Marchand (IRSN)
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Accelerated Fuel Qualification: BISON Validation to In-Situ Cladding Burst Test
10:15–10:40AM EDT
Nathan Capps (ORNL), Ryan Sweet (ORNL), Kenneth Kane (ORNL), Samuel Bell (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Paper
Development in OFFBEAT of a Dynamic-Mesh Incremental Stress-Strain Solver and Validation Against the IFA 650.2 Ballooning Experiment
10:40–11:05AM EDT
Edoardo Luciano Brunetto (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Alessandro Scolaro (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Carlo Fiorina (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Andreas Pautz (Paul Scherrer Institut)
Mechanical Property Evaluation with Nanoindentation Method on Zircaloy-4 Cladding Tube After LOCA-Simulated Experiment
11:05–11:30AM EDT
K. Kakiuchi (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), A. Yamauchi (Secretariat of Nuclear Regulation Authority), M. Amaya (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Y. Udagawa (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), K. Kitano (Secretariat of Nuclear Regulation Authority)
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