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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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Disney World should have gone nuclear
There is extra significance to the American Nuclear Society holding its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, this past week. That’s because in 1967, the state of Florida passed a law allowing Disney World to build a nuclear power plant.
Tatsuo Shikama, T. Yano, J. Ukai, S. Onose, M. Itoh, S. J. Zinkle, L. L. Snead, T. Maruyama, S. Nagata, B. Tsuchiya, K. Toh
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 44 | Number 2 | September 2003 | Pages 495-499
Technical Paper | Fusion Energy - Fusion Materials | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A385
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Gas nuclear transmutation effects in aluminum nitride were studied by the isotope tailoring method. In this method, nearly identical materials with two different radio-isotopes of nitrogen-14 (Al14N) and 15(Al15N) were prepared. The Al14N and Al15N specimens were irradiated in the JOYO fast reactor and the HFIR thermal reactor. The results were analyzed and compared to accumulated irradiation data from JMTR and JOYO. The data clearly shows the effects of gas nuclear transmutation on the linear dimension change.
