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Reactor Physics
The division's objectives are to promote the advancement of knowledge and understanding of the fundamental physical phenomena characterizing nuclear reactors and other nuclear systems. The division encourages research and disseminates information through meetings and publications. Areas of technical interest include nuclear data, particle interactions and transport, reactor and nuclear systems analysis, methods, design, validation and operating experience and standards. The Wigner Award heads the awards program.
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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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A more open future for nuclear research
A growing number of institutional, national, and funder mandates are requiring researchers to make their published work immediately publicly accessible, through either open repositories or open access (OA) publications. In addition, both private and public funders are developing policies, such as those from the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the European Commission, that ask researchers to make publicly available at the time of publication as much of their underlying data and other materials as possible. These, combined with movement in the scientific community toward embracing open science principles (seen, for example, in the dramatic rise of preprint servers like arXiv), demonstrate a need for a different kind of publishing outlet.
L. Doerr, J. Dehne, M. Glugla, H. Kissel, R.-D. Penzhorn, S. Welte, J.L. Hemmerich
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 1155-1159
Isotope Separation | Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology Tsukuba, Japan November 12-16, 2001 | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A22765
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A new hydrogen isotope separation column has been constructed, manufactured and tested with deuterium and protium. After successful commissioning tests the column was connected to the existing gas chromatographic Isotope Separation System within a glove box. It was demonstrated that equipment which has already been operated with large amounts of tritium can be opened without spreading excessive contamination if proper purging has been carried out before the breach of the primary system. Commissioning with deuterium and small amounts of tritium after the new column was integrated into the existing process circuit in the glove box confirmed the good separation of the new column already demonstrated before.
