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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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New laws offer nuclear industry incentives for existing power plant uprates
This year, the U.S. nuclear industry received a much-needed economic boost that could help preserve operating nuclear power plants and incentivize upgrades that extend their lifespan and power output.
Signed into law in 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act offers production tax credits (PTCs) for existing nuclear power plants and either PTCs or investment tax credits (ITCs) for new carbon-free generation. These credits could make power uprates—increasing the maximum power level at which a commercial plant may operate—a much more appealing option for utilities.
T. W. Armstrong, R. G. Alsmiller, Jr., J. Barish
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 37 | Number 3 | September 1969 | Pages 337-342
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE69-A19110
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Calculations have been carried out to estimate the absorbed-dose and dose-equivalent rates at various depths in the atmosphere due to the prompt proton spectrum of an energetic solar flare—the flare of February 23, 1956. Although there is some uncertainty associated with the flare spectrum and with the manner in which the dose rates were obtained from the calculated particle spectra, the calculations indicate that in the vicinity of polar latitudes and at the higher altitudes envisioned for supersonic aircraft flights dose-equivalent rates as high as ∼10 rem/h are possible.