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Young Members Group
The Young Members Group works to encourage and enable all young professional members to be actively involved in the efforts and endeavors of the Society at all levels (Professional Divisions, ANS Governance, Local Sections, etc.) as they transition from the role of a student to the role of a professional. It sponsors non-technical workshops and meetings that provide professional development and networking opportunities for young professionals, collaborates with other Divisions and Groups in developing technical and non-technical content for topical and national meetings, encourages its members to participate in the activities of the Groups and Divisions that are closely related to their professional interests as well as in their local sections, introduces young members to the rules and governance structure of the Society, and nominates young professionals for awards and leadership opportunities available to members.
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Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
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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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ARPA-E announces $40 million to develop transmutation technologies for UNF
The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) announced $40 million in funding to develop cutting-edge technologies to enable the transmutation of used nuclear fuel into less-radioactive substances. According to ARPA-E, the new initiative addresses one of the agency’s core goals as outlined by Congress: to provide transformative solutions to improve the management, cleanup, and disposal of radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel.
Andrea Rizzolo, Piero Agostinetti, Mauro Breda, Moreno Maniero, Diego Marcuzzi, Modesto Moressa, Matteo Valente
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 62 | Number 1 | July-August 2012 | Pages 164-170
Blanket Materials Technology | Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, Part A: Fusion Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST12-A14130
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The ITER Neutral Beam Test Facility (PRIMA - Padova Research on ITER Megavolt Accelerator) is planned to be built at Consorzio RFX (Padova, Italy). PRIMA includes two experimental devices: a full-size plasma source with low voltage extraction called SPIDER (Source for Production of Ions of Deuterium Extracted from RF plasma) and a full-size neutral beam injector at full beam power called MITICA (Megavolt ITER Injector Concept Advancement).The beam source components are exposed to high and focused heat loads during beam production, and they are actively cooled, being at high voltage, by ultrapure water, which flows through cooling channels machined inside the components. The high power loads, the complexity of the cooling circuits, and their small, rectangular cross sections are design critical issues.The results of the tests carried out on the single cooling channel prototypes (SCPs) for the SPIDER accelerator grids and their performances in terms of pressure drop and heat exchange calculation are presented. The SCPs have been tested in environmental conditions similar to injector ones, i.e., they have been subjected to thermal loads up to the average heat power density of 1 MW/m2 , in a vacuum environment (0.5 Pa). The experimental results have been cross-checked with computational fluid dynamics analyses and analytical models.