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Accelerator Applications
The division was organized to promote the advancement of knowledge of the use of particle accelerator technologies for nuclear and other applications. It focuses on production of neutrons and other particles, utilization of these particles for scientific or industrial purposes, such as the production or destruction of radionuclides significant to energy, medicine, defense or other endeavors, as well as imaging and diagnostics.
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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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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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In October 2012, Dominion Energy announced it was closing the Kewaunee nuclear power plant, a two-loop 574-MWe pressurized water reactor located about 27 miles southeast of Green Bay, Wis., on the western shore of Lake Michigan. At the time, Dominion said the plant was running well, but that low wholesale electricity prices in the region made it uneconomical to continue operation of the single-unit merchant power plant.
Bruce W. Knight, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 19 | Number 4 | August 1964 | Pages 393-399
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A18994
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A tractable mixed numerical-analytic method is given for the approximate design of reflected reactors with cores having simultaneously flat power density, fuel loading, absorber distribution, and moderator distribution. The method as applied to finite cylinders yields a fast digital routine (about 1 sec/calculation on the IBM 704) which gives trustworthy criticality values in systems with important neutron capture at energies above thermal. Corroborative experiments on critical assemblies containing molybdenum and tungsten show power distributions flat to within ±5%.