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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Energy Secretary to speak at the 2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
In less than two weeks, the American Nuclear Society’s second annual conference of the year, the 2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo, will come to Washington, D.C.
Today, ANS is announcing that Energy Secretary Chris Wright will be joining the list of nuclear leaders slated to speak at the conference.
Click here to register for the meeting, which will take place November 9–12 in Washington, D.C., at the Washington Hilton. Be sure to do so before November 7 to take advantage of priority pricing.
T. W. L. Sanford, L. J. Lorence, J. A. Halbleib, J. G. Kelly, P. J. Griffin, J. W. Poukey, W. H. McAtee, R. C. Mock
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 114 | Number 3 | July 1993 | Pages 190-213
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE93-A24033
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
An intense reusable source of pulsed photoneutrons is developed that produces ≈0.5 or 1.0 × 1014 neutrons in an ∼15-ns pulse from natural lead or depleted uranium, respectively, on the HERMES III electron accelerator. Corresponding to this source, a numerical model is developed that is applicable to other pulsed-power systems. If Vp represents the peak voltage of HERMES III measured in megavolts, then model predictions show that over the range 12 MV < Vp< 20 MV, the number of neutrons produced per incident electron is 7.2 × 10-6(VP — 11)2.0 and 1.2 × 10-6(VP — 7.4)2 8 in lead and uranium, respectively. Measurements using a set of nuclear activation foils confirm these predictions as well as predictions of the spatial and spectral distribution of the neutrons at Vp = 19 MV.
