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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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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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Nuclear's future discussed at MURR expansion
ANS Executive Director/CEO Craig Piercy recently spoke on nuclear power’s potential for answering today’s energy demands as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series at the University of Missouri. He also took part in the ribbon cutting for a large addition to the University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR).
Rasol Khoda-Bakhsh, Heinrich Horat†, George H. Miley, Robert J. Stening, Peter Pieruschka
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 22 | Number 1 | August 1992 | Pages 50-55
Technical Paper | D-3He/Fusion Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A30053
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The realization of an ideal volume compression of laser-irradiated fusion pellets opens the possibility for an alternative to spark ignition; this has been proposed for many years for inertial confinement fusion. Using a detailed volume ignition computation of sources of reheat in deuterium-deuterium (D-D) reactions (alpha, proton, and tritium reheat), the result of the calculations show that D-D pellets can be utilized in the same way as in the deuterium-tritium reaction if higher compression can be achieved. Fusion gains of more than 80 are obtained with an initial temperature of only ∼3.0 keV, input energies close to 2.4 GJ, and initial compression at 30 000 times the solid-state density.
