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Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy
The mission of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division (NNPD) is to promote the peaceful use of nuclear technology while simultaneously preventing the diversion and misuse of nuclear material and technology through appropriate safeguards and security, and promotion of nuclear nonproliferation policies. To achieve this mission, the objectives of the NNPD are to: Promote policy that discourages the proliferation of nuclear technology and material to inappropriate entities. Provide information to ANS members, the technical community at large, opinion leaders, and decision makers to improve their understanding of nuclear nonproliferation issues. Become a recognized technical resource on nuclear nonproliferation, safeguards, and security issues. Serve as the integration and coordination body for nuclear nonproliferation activities for the ANS. Work cooperatively with other ANS divisions to achieve these objective nonproliferation policies.
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Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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U.S. and Japan collaborate on high-burnup fast reactor fuel safety tests at INL
Idaho National Laboratory recently conducted a safety test on high-burnup fast reactor fuel from historic irradiation testing at the lab’s Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II). According to the Department of Energy, which announced the work March 12, it’s the first such safety test to be performed in over 20 years.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) 2020 Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fusion Energy
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Yuhu Zhai (PPPL)
Staff Producer:
Janice Lindegard (American Nuclear Society)
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Presentation Video (Visible to Attendees) — Recent Progress on No Insulation HTS Coil Technology
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Concept design and analysis of the magnet system of the sustained high power density tokamak facility
J Menard (Princeton plasma Physics Laboratory), A Brooks, Y. Zhai, P. Titus, T. Brown, Chirag Rana (PPPL)
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FNSF Structural Sizing Studies
Peter Titus (PPPL)
Recent progress in no-insulation high temperature superconducting magnet technology
David Larbalestier, Seungyong Hahn (Seoul National University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Development of high-current density HTS magnet for the helical fusion reactor and the next-generation helical device
Kazuya Takahata, Hidetoshi Hashizume, Shinji Hamaguchi, Hitoshi Tamura, Satoshi Ito, Yoshiro Narushima, Naoki Hirano, Yuta Onodera, Junichi Miyazawa, Shinnosuke Matsunaga, Toshiyuki Mito, Nagato Yanagi (NIFS)
Fusion magnet qualification of the NSTX-U inner TF bundle using high fidelity models
Yuhu Zhai (PPPL), Richard Hawryluk, Charles Neumeyer, Thomas Willard
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