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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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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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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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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
Xiaojun Ma, Qi Wang, Zongwei Wang, Xiangyu Wan
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 77 | Number 6 | August 2021 | Pages 446-453
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1927624
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The oxygen concentration in the glow discharge polymer (GDP) capsule is one of the perturbations that most limit implosion quality. In order to investigate the feasibility of the Rutherford backscattering (RBS) technique for characterizing the oxygen concentration in a GDP capsule, the basic principle of RBS and the experimental conditions are introduced first. Then, the irradiation damage effect of incident ions on the GDP film is simulated numerically. The simulated results demonstrate that the GDP films will be damaged by the incident ions, and the vacancy damage dominates in irradiation modification. Finally, some GDP thin films are measured using RBS, and the oxygen concentration and its depth profile are obtained from the measured RBS spectrum. The simulated and experimental results prove that the oxygen concentration of GDP films can be measured precisely using RBS with an uncertainty of about 3.5%.
