ANS is committed to advancing, fostering, and promoting the development and application of nuclear sciences and technologies to benefit society.
Explore the many uses for nuclear science and its impact on energy, the environment, healthcare, food, and more.
Division Spotlight
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.
Meeting Spotlight
ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
Standards Program
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!
Latest Magazine Issues
Mar 2025
Jul 2024
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
March 2025
Nuclear Technology
Fusion Science and Technology
February 2025
Latest News
ANS 2025 election is open
The American Nuclear Society election is now open. Members can vote for the Society’s next vice president/president-elect and treasurer as well as six board members (four U.S. directors, one non-U.S. director, and one student director). Completed ballots must be submitted by 1:00 p.m. (EDT) on Tuesday, April 15, 2025.
R. T. Santoro, R. G. Alsmiller, Jr., K. C. Chandler
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 52 | Number 1 | September 1973 | Pages 124-129
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE73-A23295
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Calculated results are presented of the absorbed—dose rates and dose-equivalent rates as a function of depth in tissue when galactic cosmic-ray proton and alpha-particle spectra are isotropically incident on a spherical shell shield with a tissue sphere at its center. Aluminum shield thicknesses of 5 and 20 g cm-2 are considered. It is found that the dose rates from incident alpha particles are comparable to those from incident protons, and that for both protons and alpha particles there is a very appreciable contribution to the dose rates from nuclear-reaction products.
