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November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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NN Asks: What did you learn from ANS’s Nuclear 101?
Mike Harkin
When ANS first announced its new Nuclear 101 certificate course, I was excited. This felt like a course tailor-made for me, a transplant into the commercial nuclear world. I enrolled for the inaugural session held in November 2024, knowing it was going to be hard (this is nuclear power, of course)—but I had been working on ramping up my knowledge base for the past year, through both my employer and at a local college.
The course was a fast-and-furious roller-coaster ride through all the key components of the nuclear power industry, in one highly challenging week. In fact, the challenges the students experienced caught even the instructors by surprise. Thankfully, the shared intellectual stretch we students all felt helped us band together to push through to the end.
We were all impressed with the quality of the instructors, who are some of the top experts in the field. We appreciated not only their knowledge base but their support whenever someone struggled to understand a concept.
Georg Henneges
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 100 | Number 3 | November 1988 | Pages 314-323
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A29045
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The reactivity effects of material rearrangements, simulating conditions in a postulated liquid-metal fast breeder reactor accident, were measured in three different critical assemblies. SNEAK-12A, a single-zone core, fueled with enriched uranium metal plates; SNEAK-12B, which had a central test zone fueled with Pu0202 rod bundles surrounded by a buffer and a driver zone; and SNEAK-12C, which had nearly the same integral compositions as SNEAK-12B but was loaded totally with plates. The reactivity effects were calculated using current Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe methods and data and, in part, also using the corresponding modules of the SIMMER-11 accident analysis system. Also, for some configurations, a comparison of measured and calculated fission rate distributions was performed., The evaluation yielded similar results for the three assemblies. For most cases investigated, satisfactory agreement between theory and experiment was reached when two-dimensional transport eigenvalue calculations or exact transport perturbation methods were used. As long as larger deviations occurred, transport results generally were on the conservative side. First-order transport perturbation theory only worked well in a limited number of cases. Diffusion calculations often led to large discrepancies, particularly when the experiments involved fuel dilution.